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JO BRADFORD
Portals Chartreuse, 2018

Edition of 20
48(w) x 60(h) cm
18.90(w) x 23.62(h) inches
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48(w) x 60(h) cm
18.90(w) x 23.62(h) inches
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C-type Lambda print from photogram on Fuji Crystal Archive Pearl paper.

Signed, titled and numbered on label on verso.

/ Excluding framing as shown /
Print mounted on aluminum and raised 5mm from board. Framed in white-dust 3/8" width aluminium frame. Cost for framing: £690 / $795 / €680.

Edition of 20
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Jo Bradford Biography

(British, b. 1972)
Jo Bradford’s cameraless works are essentially photographs of photography, with the photographic means becoming the object and the medium the subject. By using only the primary tools of analogue photography: light and paper, in a sense ‘photography’ itself makes its own self-portraits.

Inspired by "Interaction of Colour", a book on colour theory by Josef Albers, Bradford’s 2016 work ‘Autogenesis’ consists of 15 limited edition photographic prints taken from original luminograms, which she makes by tracing light onto light sensitive paper. Creating luminograms is an extremely time-consuming process that takes immense skill and patience. In a completely black darkroom, masks are used to create areas of shadow, which alters the path of light on its way to the paper during the exposure of brief flashes. In this blind space, white light is refracted into the colours of the rainbow and those colours are captured onto the photographic paper to make the individual works of ‘Autogenesis’.

By working in this way, Bradford is creating pure photographs that don’t represent an external reality. Her non-figurative works subvert the established fidelity of the photograph as a record of an object, referring only to themselves, without seeking to illustrate or represent anything. This type of photography is known as Concrete Photography, which differs from abstract photography in that concrete photography takes an idea and makes it into a reality, whereas abstract photography idealises something that already exists.

Born in Hertfordshire, UK, and raised in South Africa, Jo Bradford has worked with cameraless photographic mediums such as luminograms and photograms in her colour darkroom on Dartmoor, Devon, UK for over a decade. She started showing her photographic work in 2000 and since then has exhibited regularly, selling work both nationally and internationally. After winning two Arts Council Awards, she took a year out to complete her Master’s in Photography: Critical Practice from University College Falmouth in 2004, where she received a rare distinction. She was artist in residence at Plymouth College of Art from October 2010 to June 2011.

Fascinated by geometric abstraction, minimalism and the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements, inspiration comes from the colour field work of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, the colour theory work of Josef Albers and the light work of James Turrell.

‘Autogenesis’ is the artist’s first edition in collaboration with Eyestorm, released in March 2016, which was shortly followed by the 'Elements' series later that year, 'Continuum' in 2017 and ‘Portals’ in 2018 / 2019.


 
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Collecting vintage colour charts, textile cut-offs, books on colour, colour chips and charts, Jo Bradford has devoted two decades in search of the hues she believes have been ‘left the shadows’; minor colours of the spectrum, or those that sit in-between the primary ones of the rainbow. From the black void of the artist’s darkroom, the works emerge, painted by the choreographed exposure to light sources. A methodical and meticulous process. Following the works Autogenesis and Continuum, the series of four Portals explore a more figurative subject as the door to her darkroom opens and the light from outside flows in.
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