ARTIST STATEMENT

Jess Bradford is a Singaporean-born and Gadigal / Sydney-based artist working across painting, drawing, ceramics, and installation. Her work is informed by her mixed-race heritage, and she explores representations of cultural identity, hybridity, memory and transculturation in her multimedia practice.  

Bradford’s work has been exhibited at various institutions and art spaces including Blacktown Arts Centre (2024), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery (2023), Gallery of South Australia (2019), Carriageworks (2019), 4A Center for Contemporary Asian Art (2019), and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (2015). In 2019 Bradford was a participant of the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Beijing studio residency with Shen Shaomin, and in 2018 she was a resident at the Parramatta Artists’ Studios.