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Theresa Bradbury

London
My current practice utilises performance, sculpture, photography, and film to address the nature / culture and essentialism / social constructionism dichotomies through an engagement and interrogation of Feminist New Materialisms.
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Artist Statement – Theresa Bradbury  

My work explores the binary and oppositional understandings of difference, and the entanglement of thought and practice through and with our bodies. How can matter be elevated through a vital intra-action? Thinking through matter as dynamic and constantly in flux, and the entanglement of the material and the discursive. The utilisation of live art practices to foster affective and embodied experiences, through the entanglement of onto-ethico-epistemology, to promote empathy, equity, and inclusivity. My current practice-led PhD research at Goldsmiths, focuses upon disrupting tropes around Autism as a disorder and a deficit, and to highlight the strengths and capabilities of the autistic community. To promote equity and social justice through interrogating the dualism of Western culture and embrace the materialism of embodied practices, utilising Barad’s theories of onto-ethico-epistemology and intra-action to question bodies as border sites and lacking a self-contained existence (Barad, 2007). My performance practice is participatory and collaborative.

Lived Experience

Theresa is currently a doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Theresa graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a distinction in MFA Fine Art and was selected as a recipient of the School of Art and Design Scholarship Award. Theresa’s research has a specialist focus on feminist practice and theory. She has exhibited and performed widely most recently at Contact, Asylum Gallery, Nottingham Contemporary, G39, NN Contemporary, Ovalhouse, The Yard Theatre, Anise Gallery, and Primary. She is a member of Axisweb, a curated platform for artists and has had extensive experience of working as an Artist Facilitator in several organisations, including Nottingham Contemporary, Harley Gallery, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery and with numerous schools and community groups. 

 

A Mirror Folded Back on Itself

Femininity Skins

Femininity As Masquerade

Of Never Being Simply One

Keep Intact the Circulation of Pretence by Enveloping Herself in Femininity

So Woman Serves As Reflection

A Mirror Folded Back On Itself

Being Feminine #3

Being Feminine

Subverting Femininity

Uncensored Exhibition

Uncensored Festival

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