Bruce Bradfield calls Geraldton; Western Australia, his home. He’s spent most of his life there, but is of the ‘Bardi Mob’ – from One Arm Point – in the Dampier Peninsula. He’s just one of many ‘deadly’ Indigenous artist’s practicing his artwork in the Mid West of WA.
Bruce is a printmaker who considers himself to be a contemporary Indigenous artist, concentrating primarily on the colours that parade themselves across our broad sunburnt land. These colour’s have been part of the wider landscape for far longer than the many peoples and cultures that eventually chose to live within it. It was these colours that welcomed or frightened those that then came later – in the tall, many-masted ships of the first fleet; and it’s these colours that are here today – present now for all of us to see.
