Jacqueline Bradley
all of a sudden
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
Jacqueline Bradley
Image: Jacqueline Bradley, Stamps, 2022, cast bronze peach stones, linen, timber, thread, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Brenton McGeachie
all of a sudden
Image: Jacqueline Bradley, Stamps, 2022, cast bronze peach stones, linen, timber, thread, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Brenton McGeachie
Jacqueline Bradley
all of a sudden
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
There is a moment each season where a fruit tree turns. It is a quickening of time; a hard green peach becomes a moment of delight and then falls to the ground, beginning a slow transformation from stone to tree. This process of replication is on repeat, a cycle within a tangle of organic, planetary, and cultural rhythms.
Our relationship with the peach is complex, abundant with histories and associations of fertility, decay, and bodily metaphor. A brief moment of release as the juice breaks through the skin; a decade spent visiting the gnarled tree in the yard; the remnants of farm gardens on stolen land. It is a tree that has shifted and changed for thousands of years, cultivating a fruit that is bruised and gone within days, exposing a stone waiting to be a plant.
all of a sudden is an installation of four elements. On the wall is a cast glass vessel made to hold a single peach, replaced as the fruit decays. Hanging over the top of a wall, a long swathe of pale pink fabric reaches to the ground and builds into a pile at the ground. On the floor, a cast glass fruit tray sits on top of timber struts, awaiting the harvest. In the far room, a collection of glass hoops hangs high on a timber hook.
Each element has a visceral materiality shared between organic bodies. The fruit in a delicate state of decay, porous fabric slumps like a skin, glass remains fluid in state between liquid and solid and timber acts as skeletal support structure. These elements are moments in a repetitive system; peaches replaced on a cycle determined by decay, fabric caught in a moment of collapse and hoops made in hot glass around a mould, repeated again and again.
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Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach, Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets and Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden and Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022; Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach, Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets and Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets and Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, (detail), 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Spill, (detail), 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach, Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets, Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton and Jacqueline Bradley, Rings, 2022, pulled glass rings and timber. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Rings, 2022, pulled glass rings and timber. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Rings, (detail), 2022, pulled glass rings and timber. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Image: Jacqueline Bradley, Stamps, 2022, cast bronze peach stones, linen, timber, thread, courtesy of the artist. Photograph: Brenton McGeachie
Jacqueline Bradley
all of a sudden
3 feb. — 18 mar. 2023
There is a moment each season where a fruit tree turns. It is a quickening of time; a hard green peach becomes a moment of delight and then falls to the ground, beginning a slow transformation from stone to tree. This process of replication is on repeat, a cycle within a tangle of organic, planetary, and cultural rhythms.
Our relationship with the peach is complex, abundant with histories and associations of fertility, decay, and bodily metaphor. A brief moment of release as the juice breaks through the skin; a decade spent visiting the gnarled tree in the yard; the remnants of farm gardens on stolen land. It is a tree that has shifted and changed for thousands of years, cultivating a fruit that is bruised and gone within days, exposing a stone waiting to be a plant.
all of a sudden is an installation of four elements. On the wall is a cast glass vessel made to hold a single peach, replaced as the fruit decays. Hanging over the top of a wall, a long swathe of pale pink fabric reaches to the ground and builds into a pile at the ground. On the floor, a cast glass fruit tray sits on top of timber struts, awaiting the harvest. In the far room, a collection of glass hoops hangs high on a timber hook.
Each element has a visceral materiality shared between organic bodies. The fruit in a delicate state of decay, porous fabric slumps like a skin, glass remains fluid in state between liquid and solid and timber acts as skeletal support structure. These elements are moments in a repetitive system; peaches replaced on a cycle determined by decay, fabric caught in a moment of collapse and hoops made in hot glass around a mould, repeated again and again.
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Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach, Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets and Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden and Julian Meagher The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray featuring Julian Meagher, The Green Ray – 8, 9, 10 (triptych), 2022; Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach, Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets and Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets and Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, (detail), 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Spill, (detail), 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Font, 2022, cast glass, timber bracket and peach, Jacqueline Bradley, Lilac fruit tray, 2022, kiln formed glass, timber struts and Perspex brackets, Jacqueline Bradley, Spill, 2023, linen and cupro fabric and cotton and Jacqueline Bradley, Rings, 2022, pulled glass rings and timber. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Rings, 2022, pulled glass rings and timber. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Jacqueline Bradley all of a sudden featuring Jacqueline Bradley, Rings, (detail), 2022, pulled glass rings and timber. Photograph Silversalt Photography.