Adrian Bradbury

Adrian primarily paints Tasmanian land and seascapes. Most of his works begin as photos or sketches on site, many captured when working in Tasmania’s National Parks constructing walking tracks.

In his current series of paintings the weather dominates the landscape, with rain and wind being physically wiped, smudged and slashed across the canvas in physical gestures of paintbrush, rags, palette knife, and hand.

In this way the represented landscape often becomes concealed under subsequent layers of paint. With often only small sections of the original landscape recognisable.

Most recently Adrian has been drawing from his past practice as a graffiti artist and combining elements of spray painted and rollered ‘graffiti’ layered over the top of his more traditional landscapes. These paintings invite the viewer to meditate on the history of place and have been informed by readings on ecology and the history of land use within Tasmania.

Adrian studied Visual Arts at RMIT in 2002/03 then spent the next decade travelling widely – working ski seasons then painting, hiking and climbing obsessively in the summer months. He won the Haileybury College Art Prize in 2001 and was a finalist in the 2016 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. He now lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania.