SHANE BRADFORD Shane is best known for his ‘dipping’ process in which various objects are repeatedly dipped in multi coloured emulsions, Shane Bradford’s practice broadens to encompass large-scale oil painting, 3 dimensional objects and project work. A complex and challenging balance of socio-political narrative and creative wanderlust underpins an intrinsic humour in the work. Fundamentally a response to environment, Bradford’s work celebrates the neon urban aesthetic while attempting to reconcile it’s commercial content. “Shane Bradford follows in a long tradition of 20th century painters enamoured with post-Pollock paint drips. But Bradford enacts his painterly fetish with one vital spelling difference: drip becomes dip.Bradford's luscious, sweet objects employ paint to remind us that desire is an index of mortality. Eat this, sate your desire, and be prepared to pay the price for your pleasure principle.” Extract from ‘Eat My Desire’ by Shumon Basar,  published in SexyMachinery (issue 09, 2003)

SHANE BRADFORD
Morris Louis, The Museum of Modern Art, New York'
by John Elderfield Pub.1986
2 8x29x4cm
catalogue, gloss

SHANE BRADFORD
'Vanishing Point'
100x79x20cm
Gloss, acrylic, resin, toy figures, collage images on board,
mounted on dart shafts
2007

SHANE BRADFORD
"Modern Art- A Collins Larousse Concise Encyclopedia"
(Raymond Charmet 1965; 1972 edn with newspaper obituaries of artist deaths)
2007
book, gloss, paint
30 x 16.6 x 5 cm

SHANE BRADFORD
"Mondrian"
Frank Elgar
World of Art Library Artists, pub. 1968
Thames And Hudson
paperback reference book, gloss, paint
28 x 16 x 5 cm

SHANE BRADFORD
Paperback, gloss  26x16x6cm
A Concise History of Modern Painting, revised edition' by Herbert Read.
Published by Thames and Hudson
2006

SHANE BRADFORD
'Frank Stella 1958' by Harry Cooper and Megan R Luke.
Yale Uni Press 2006
Stella catalogue, gloss
34x23x4cm
2006

SHANE BRADFORD
'in Cold Blood'
Book Size
2006

SHANE BRADFORD
'Vogue, British edition May 2006 model Natalia Vodianova'
Magazine, gloss
34 x 23 x 7 cm
Magazine Size
2007

SHANE BRADFORD
'Bacons Atlas of London'
Book Size
2006

SHANE BRADFORD
'On The road'
Book Size
2006

SHANE BRADFORD
'A Report'
2006
152.5x122cm
Oil, acrylic, resin, PVA on linen



SHANE BRADFORD
'Vertical Hold'
2006
98x198cm
Oil, acrylic, resin, PVA, beeswax on linen