Biography

Tim Bradford regards himself as an emerging artist.
He is simply, like a drugged butterfly, emerging in slow motion.
In his twenties he lived for a while in Venezuela and was
heavily influenced by rural folk art. Other influences include
the Rothko Chapel, Frida Kahlo, Egyptian funerary portraits,
Holy well decorations, African barbershop signs, religious icons,
surf T-shirts, old football cards, crap signs and those blue photos
you get in old shop windows. A lot of his work involves fruitless
searches for things that are lost, be they people, underground rivers,
stories, buildings or ways of life. Regular motifs include
the connecting and merging of maps, old photographs
and whiskey-based visions.

Bradford works as a political cartoonist for The New European
newspaper and football cartoonist for When Saturday Comes
magazine. He’s had four heavily illustrated memoiry travel books
published, the last of which – A London Country Diary –
featured many of the same themes as this exhibition,
including a series of nature sketches called
Plants I Don’t Know the Name Of.

Exhibitions

December 2020-Jan 2021
Winter Open (Group exhibition)
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery

September-October 2018
The Beautiful Mundane - Love, Life, Walking and Tangential Reality (Solo exhibition)
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery

August 2017
ART AT CASS 2017 (curated exhibition by The Siott Gallery)
Cass Business School, Bunhill Row, London

June 2016
What Goes On In The Mind (group exhibition)
Mental Spaghetti/AIMS
Town Hall Gallery
Oxford

April 2016
Cross-Pollination (group exhibition)
Mental Spaghetti, Dragon Cafe
London SE1

November 2014
Can You See What I See? (curated exhibition by The Siott Gallery)
Norden Farm Gallery
Maidenhead

May – August 2014
The Good Earth (group exhibition)
The Conference Centre Gallery, The Arts Project, St Pancras Hospital

December 2013-January 2014
The Reflecting Eye (group exhibition)
The Conference Centre Gallery, The Arts Project, St Pancras Hospital

June-July 2013
New Wave Wang-Eyed Pop Folk Art: A Retrospective (solo exhibition)
Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London N16

Jun-Aug 2011
Everything Is Connected [Sort of] (solo exhibition)
Cinnamon 2, Finsbury Park, London

Jan/Feb 2010
Portrait for Everyone (curated exhibition)
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Haringey, London

Sept 2007
Not What You’d Expect – Irish Painting 1919 to 2007 (curated exhibition by Fiona Woods)
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery

June/July 2007
Bachelors Walk – Pictures from a North Clare Townland (solo exhibition)
Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery

June-August 2006
Works on Paper (curated group exhibition)
Glór, Ennis

October 2005
Earth Patterns (2D3D)
Group show
Stoke Newington Gallery http://thesmoke.net/ddddd/

About the artist

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