Composition (And I know that I can call on you until you're real enough to turn from) #2
Composition (And I know that I can call on you until you're real enough to turn from) #2 by Bradley East
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bradley East is a First Nations (Gamilaraay), queer multidisciplinary artist, designer and writer working predominantly in glass. Emerging from a background in graffiti and street art, East developed an interest in art history and theory after completing a diploma at Canberra Institute of Technology in 2016, and thereafter a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture from RMIT in 2021. East has exhibited extensively across Australia in performance, painting, video, photography, sculpture and glass. His studies in queer theory and his positionality as an aboriginal man have informed his conceptual and process-based approach to making, utilising a drawing methodology in which repetition, mark-making and line form a canvas for his ideas.
Composition (And I know that I can call on you until you’re real enough to turn from) celebrates this potential of the surface as a myriad of possibilities. Each glass form is blown, meticulously cold-worked and then engraved, sitting in dialogue with one another and the viewer. The repetitive line-work (itself derived from Paul Klee’s 1926 drawing ‘Garden For Orpheus’) evokes varying references and in such a way the forms become vessels for identity and meaning that playfully shift with each new encounter. The work invites reflection on what it means to take something at ‘face value’, rather than positioning the surface as something to be penetrated.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Discover the next generation of designer/makers in an exhibition of work by the talented Associates across JamFactory’s Ceramics, Glass, Furniture and Jewellery/Metal Studios.
Dimensions: dimensions variable
Material: hand blown glass
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Handmade in Australia.
THIS PIECE IS ON DISPLAY AS PART OF THE 'TOMORROW TALENT' EXHIBITION.
THE EXHIBITION RUNS UNTIL NOVEMBER 15TH 2026. ANY SOLD WORK WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTION OR DELIVERY IN LATE NOVEMBER 2026.