From four decades of practice, 20 large and rarely seen works that include monumental drawings on paper, unique artist books, wall drawings and chalk on blackboard artworks are on show at Deakin this month by Melbourne artist Godwin Bradbeer. His abilities as draftsman run parallel to a thoughtful focus on the fragile nature and the subject of the body as a ruin. “Bradbeer’s artistic research mediates on the archaic and archaeological, ideas of mortality and transformation”, explained exhibition curator James Lynch.
Godwin Bradbeer, Profile with Atlantic Fracture Version 2, 1984-2016, chinagraph, pastel and graphite on paper, 325 x 254cm (overall). Courtesy the artist, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne and Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Deakin University Art Gallery
Until 13 April, 2017
Melbourne
