Liz Bradshaw

 http://cargocollective.com/lizbradshaw

Liz's work directly addresses the nature of objects and materials, their histories, and the ways subjectivity can be constituted and challenged by our encounter with the art object. Liz is engaged with the everyday, the found object and the art historical and epistemological archives of the 20th Century. She explores the way we use the Other to construct meaning and identity: whether through the object, place or memory. This has guided the development of a diverse practice concerned with the fabrications of history, and cultural nostalgia for past times and other places.

Through the use of found objects, industrial and domestic building materials, the physical impact of scale and the judicious use of text, her work explores the cultural markers of public and private histories for modernity, industrialisation and the domestic sphere; the attribution of meaning to materiality; and the attribution of gender to materiality and form. Her work expresses something about both the obsolescence and lingering ideology of the industrial production/consumption machine. At the same time it is increasingly reflective of her interest in Australian history and the legacies of colonialism; and of a particularly Australian vernacular & humour.

Liz studied at the University of Sydney, the National Art School Sydney, and Sydney College of the Arts. She has taught art and design at Sydney College of the Arts; the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW; the Tin Sheds Art Workshops, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney; and most recently at Suffolk School of Arts, University Campus Suffolk; and Suffolk New College. She has work in public and private collections in Sydney, New York and the UK.

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About the Artist - Liz Bradshaw -  

http://cargocollective.com/lizbradshaw