Born 1983, Melbourne
Lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania
 
These works are inspired and informed by Adrian's work maintaining and constructing walking tracks through the boulder-fields and bushland of kunanyi/Mt Wellington.

The painterly blurring of burnt-umber and ash-grey-white boulders and impasto gestures of wind affected tree trunks evoke the tactile experience of someone navigating their way through the shifting boulder-fields of kunanyi.

Adrian Bradbury holds a Master of Fine Art (University of Tasmania, 2022), an Honours degree in Painting (University of Tasmania, 2018), a Bachelor of Health Science (Victoria University, 2008), and a Diploma of Visual Arts (RMIT, 2003)

Bradbury has twice been a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural Science art prize, 2018 and 2016.

His work has featured in Lume, White Horses, The Mercury, The Examiner, The Advocate, and on set of The Gloaming.

Solo exhibition venues include Moonah Arts Centre, Schoolhouse Gallery, Rosny TAS, Maker's Space Gallery, Burnie, TAS, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart TAS, Stillwater Gallery, Launceston TAS, Sawtooth, Launceston TAS and Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne, VIC.
 
The Mercury, Weekend Tasmania, page six, April 15-16 2023.

Andrew Harper

Adrian Bradbury has an intimate relationship with kunanyi: he’s one of those dedicated workers that spend days up on the mountain, maintaining and building tracks.
The collection of works springs from this experience: it’s an up close and personal record of being in one place again and again, walking it, noting details and finding something quietly mystical in the space: there’s a real aura of mystery that’s beautifully communicated.
Bradbury has a clever, distinct stylised approach that gives his work a strong sense of formal rigour.
Bradbury has an excellent palette for what he’s doing, finding tones and subtle variation that communicate a studied observation of small details, as if the works themselves have grown spreads of lichen.
It’s very successful work that hovers delicately between a sense of abstraction and a series of experiments with the myriad complex forms Bradbury sees in his day jobs.
Bradbury notices and sees, creating a complex lexicon of beautiful natural patterns and configurations.
 

Education
2019-22 Masters of Fine Art (Research), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
2018 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TA
2008 Bachelor of Health Science, Victoria University, VIC
2002-03 Diploma of Visual Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC
 

Awards
2018 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize: Finalist. Adelaide, SA
2017 Lethbridge 10000: Finalist
2016 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize: Finalist. Adelaide, SA
2001 Haileybury College Art Prize: Winner. Melbourne, VIC
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Kunanyi: Boulder-fields and Bushland, Colville Gallery, Tas
2022 On Unstable Ground, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Through The Boulder-fields, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, VIC
2021 The Boulder-field Scrolls, Blenheim Gallery and Garden, Longford, TAS
2020 Wilderness Gallery, Cradle Mountain, TAS
2019 Lost, Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, TAS
The Lost World, Moonah Arts Centre, TAS
The Lost World (Track), School House Gallery, Rosny, TAS
2018 Darkness and Light on The Tasman, Maker's Space Gallery, Burnie, TAS
2017 Darkness and Light on The Tasman Top Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
First Light. Stillwater Gallery, Launceston, TAS
2016 A Graffitied Land. Dark Horse Experiment, Melbourne, VIC
Road Trip: From the Mountains to the Sea. Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Albert Park, VIC
Adrian Bradbury. Freycinet Lodge, Coles Bay, TAS
2015 Adrian Bradbury. Freycinet Lodge, Coles Bay, TAS
 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Land Proxy Poimena Gallery Launceston
2022 Somewhere Here, Moonah Arts Centre, Moonah, TAS
Domicile, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
2019 Not Just Paint, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
2018 Not Just Paint, The Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
Honours Graduation Show, Plimsoll Gallery, UTAS, Hobart, TAS
In The Elements, Derwent Sailing Squadron, Sandy Bay, TAS
Not Another Landscape, The Floral Criterion, Hobart, TAS
Dear Kunanyi, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA
2017 Spring Has Sprung, Wild Island Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
Water Ways Exhibition, Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
2016 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA
Kingborough Art Prize, Kingborough, TAS
Antillart, St. Helens, TAS
2015 Freycinet Lodge, Coles Bay, TAS
2006 The Goodness in You, Northcote Social Club, Northcote, VIC
2003 Foyer Show, RMIT, Melbourne, VIC
Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT. Melbourne, VIC
 

Media/Publications

2020 Baker, Claire, Paintings of wild Tasmania hit stardom, UTAS. Website. Communications, News. January, 2020
2019 Paintings featured in set design of The Gloaming. Television Production, Stan
Harper, Andrew, Two-way Cleansing. Tas Weekend, The Mercury, August 17-18, 2019
2018 Bradbury, Adrian, Darkness and Light: Uneasy Tributes to the Tasman Sea. Issue 24 White Horses, 2018
Hay, Lara, Contrasts Explored in Art. New Exhibition on now at The Maker's. The Advocate. Tuesday, March 13, 2018
2017 Brunton, Tess, Tasmanian artist Adrian Bradbury clears out taboo at first light. The Examiner. Saturday, August 19, 2017
2016 Ryn, Claire Van, Layered Landscapes. Lume. Issue 5. November 2016
2015 Phillips, Campbell, Wild Artist: Adrian Bradbury on display at Freycinet Lodge, Wild M Magazine. Website. People/Profile. December 2015