The Outdoors Type is Jacqueline Bradley's investigation into her own interactions with the Australian landscape. Bradley creates series of costumes and props using sewing and found objects, which are intended to bridge the gap between the artist and the natural environment. These interactions are documented and displayed alongside the costumes through a series of hand wound flipbooks. Begun as a response to a residency at Arthur Boyd's' Estate, Bundanon, Bradley has developed a series of works to make a space for the uncomfortable and unskilled when faced with the great outdoors.

Based in Canberra, Jacqueline Bradley makes sculptural and performative objects, installations and costumes using building materials, household items, fabric and wallpaper. Her work explores ideas of home and a sense of place, with an emphasis on sewing and a focus on the hand of the maker. These works investigate her experiences of construction of home and identity in an Australian society; how these spaces are defined, how we integrate or separate ourselves from the surrounding environment, both constructed and natural, and the way in which aspects of a past heritage are embraced, ignored or forgotten.

LAUNCH Thursday 26 April 2012, 6-8pm
To be opened by Carol Cains, Curator, Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria.
SHOWING 27 April – 9 June, 2012

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The Outdoors Type is supported by Arts ACT.