Godwin Bradbeer

Godwin Bradbeer (born 1950 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born artist now living and working in Australia whose work has evolved from his photo-media (incorporating photography, drawing and painting) to pure drawing.

Godwin Bradbeer
Born
Godwin Bradbeer

1950 (age 69–70)
New Zealand
NationalityAustralian
EducationMelbourne Teachers College (now University of Melbourne), Melbourne College of Advanced Education (now University of Melbourne), RMIT University
Known forDrawing
AwardsDobell Drawing Prize (1998)
Website

Biography

Bradbeer was born in 1950 in New Zealand.[1][2] The same year his family moved to Glasgow, Scotland, migrating to Australia in 1955.[3] In 1971, he received a Higher Diploma of Secondary Education (Art/Craft) at the Melbourne Teachers College (now part of the University of Melbourne) and taught in Victorian high schools from 1972 to 1982.[4] He returned to study in 1983, completing a Bachelor of Education (Art/Craft) at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education (now part of the University of Melbourne) in 1984.[5][6] In 1986, he married Gabrielle Pervesi.[7] From 1983 to 2010, he lectured in drawing and painting at various institutions including the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), Monash University and RMIT University.In 1994, he completed a Master of Art at RMIT University.[8][9] Since 2010, he has guest lectured at various institutions.[10]

Bradbeer held his first solo exhibition in 1977 in Melbourne, and his first international exhibition in Hong Kong in 1999.[11] He won the Dobell Drawing Prize in 1998 and was a finalist for the prize in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, and 2012.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] In 2014, he published a book of poetry, Half truths: in lyric verse.[24]

Artistic style and subject

Bradbeer began as a photographer but came to focus on drawing and his style has been described as ‘drawing for the temple not the café’.[25] His drawings are focused on the ‘large-scale images of the human form’.[26]

Awards/Prizes/Residencies

Dobell Drawing Prize (1st prize, 1998)[27]

Collections

Bradbeer's work is held in the following collections:

Further reading

Works by Bradbeer

Exhibition catalogues

Books
  • McKenzie, Janet & Wach, Kenneth, (writer of foreword.) (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. Thames & Hudson Australia, Port Melbourne, Victoria

References
  1. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 264. ISBN 9780500501283.
  2. McKenzie, Janet; Wach, Kenneth (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Thames & Hudson Australia. p. 264. ISBN 9780500501283.
  3. McKenzie, Janet; Wach, Kenneth (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Thames & Hudson Australia. p. 264. ISBN 9780500501283.
  4. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 264. ISBN 9780500501283.
  5. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 264. ISBN 9780500501283.
  6. Bradbeer, Godwin (1984). The discrete human figure in the work of Warren Breninger. Melbourne, Vic: Melbourne College of Advanced Education.
  7. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 140. ISBN 9780500501283.
  8. McKenzie, Janet; Wach, Kenneth (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Thames & Hudson Australia. p. 264. ISBN 9780500501283.
  9. Bradbeer, Godwin (1994). Empirical painting : a search for a pictorial symbolism in human appearances. Melbourne, Vic.: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
  10. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 140. ISBN 9780500501283.
  11. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 140. ISBN 9780500501283.
  12. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 1998 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  13. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 1999 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  14. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2000 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  15. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2002 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  16. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2003 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  17. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2004 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  18. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2005 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  19. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2006 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  20. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2007 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  21. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2008 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  22. "Dobell Prize for Drawing (discontinued) finalists 2011 :: Art Gallery NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  23. "Archibald Prize Dobell 2012 finalist: Imago – point blank by Godwin Bradbeer". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  24. Bradbeer, Godwin (2014). Half truths : in lyric verse. Melbourne: Metasenta Publishing. ISBN 9780987272485.
  25. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 13. ISBN 9780500501283.
  26. McKenzie, Janet (2018). Godwin Bradbeer. p. 17. ISBN 9780500501283.
  27. "Archibald Prize Dobell 1998 finalist: Man of paper VII by Godwin Bradbeer". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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