Godwin Bradbeer, 'Tabula Rasa: A Suburban Archeology'
March 8 - March 31 2012, Exhibition opening event Saturday March 8th, 2-4pm

Godwin Bradbeer, celebrated for his figurative drawings and for which he has been awarded major art prizes, will mount an installation of found objects mediated by his hand drawn/written marks.  

Godwin Bradbeer's work is shown courtesy of James Makin Gallery.

TABULA RASA:
A Suburban Archaeology

These tableaux noir - not quite black, not quite blank – are for me, a mute correspondence with the past.  I imagine they might be encoded with poignant fragments of history but it is more likely that in gathering them up - over three days – that I was merely taking possession of 145 variations of nothing.

But there is nothing that is merely nothing.

For me, they isolate an aspect of beauty, in their minimalism, their obscurity, their variation and the sheer circumstance of their survival.



Godwin Bradbeer
Feb 2012

Tabula Rasa #3 'Alpha'
2012
Found Object
 
 

Tabula Rasa #32 'The Carnival'
2012
Found Object

Tabula Rasa #1 'the'
2012
Found Object