BIOGRAPHY & ARTIST STATEMENT

Since graduating from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2014 with a first class honours BA in Painting, Peter Bradley has had solo exhibitions with the Linenhall Arts Centre, and 126 Galway, and has exhibited in group shows at The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Butler Gallery, among others. He was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait prize in 2016 and Zurich Portrait Prize in 2018. He has received the Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award by the Galway City Council in 2017, and the R.C. Lewis Crosby Award for Painting in 2013. Bradley lives and works in Galway City.

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Identity, gender, sex, and sexuality are prevalent themes in the work of painter Peter Bradley. Having had an obsession with Identity and gender from a young age, Bradley’s investigation is driven by the artifice of social constructionism and is inspired by those individuals who do not feel constrained by outdated ideas of what is acceptable or expected of them. His paintings are an analysis of identity presentation between and beyond the gender binary and a celebration of self-expression.

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Particular attention is paid to the ever evolving realisation that gender, sex, and sexuality all exist on a spectrum. 

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