JAMIE BRADBURY

Jamie Bradbury has worked in Drawing and Painting for the past 15 years. Originally from Toronto, Canada, and based in Nemaska, Quebec, he Studied Painting at OCADU University, and obtained a Master’s degree from Central Saint Martins in London U.K, in 2010.

His works explore identity, situating auto-biographical narratives, within collective histories. Blending both personal, and found source material together, he attempts to complicate where the personal begins, and the collective ends. Drawing from his experiences of living semi-nomadically, exploring both his Jamaican, and Newfoundland ancestral traditions, Jamies’ work often reveals an ongoing interest in cultural adaptation, malaise, and exchange.

His works have been exhibited throughout North America, and Europe at Arte Fiera, Santorini Biennale, AACDD Festival London, Art Toronto, and AQUA Miami). He’s appeared in publications such as Canadian Art, Voir Magazine, CBC news, and Garageland, first coming to national prominence in Canada, participating on the T.V programme Star portraits. His works are held in private and public collections such as the Portrait Gallery of Canada, Debbie Moore M.B.E, and the ALDO collection.

Rez Life is an ongoing series of watercolour paintings created in the Cree Nation of Nemaska, located in northern Quebec, James Bay region, where I currently reside. This series is a meditation on re-introducing myself to the land, after years spent living abroad in London. Upon arriving back to Canada, I felt a disconnection to both the culture I grew up with, along with the rugged beauty of its landscape. Visiting, and later moving to northern Quebec began this process of reconnection. These works depict various aspects of contemporary life in the north, both its fragility, and its harshness.