KRYSTAL BRADFORD

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Krystal is a Brisbane-based contemporary artist who specializes in abstract paintings. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Art, Fine Arts (Excellence) degree and a post-graduate Bachelor of Secondary Education qualification, which enabled her to pursue a career as a visual art teacher. Krystal's early career saw her selected to showcase her work in various emerging artists' exhibitions and gallery spaces throughout Brisbane, which helped to kick-start her contemporary sculpture and textile practice. Despite her passion for sculpture and textiles, traditional foundations of drawing, mixed media and painting have remained at the root of her practice.

In recent years, Krystal has reignited her love for painting and drawing, returning to mixed media, painting, and colour exploration reminiscent of her early years at Art College. The raw, vulnerable and imperfect forms from artists like Tracy Emin, Egon Schiele, John Olsen, Brett Whiteley, and the role of Expressionism continue to influence her work.

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Bradford uses an interplay of colour and shape to create a sensory connection, sense of movement and energy. Her use of colour and application of paint is both vulnerable and intricate, conveying the imperfect terrains of the land and human interactions. Her repetitive exploration of patterns resembles moments of chatter from the past and present, observations of nature and those relationships that materialise the simplest of things - often resulting in complex, weblike moments in time. From micro to macro stylisations of pattern, Krystal seeks to understand how the terrain surrounding us is in constant flux, influenced by all living forces of life.