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- Harry Bradshaw
Harry
Bradshaw
'Meitheal na Grá
Artist Statement:
The Artist’s earthen works are the consequent by-product of a making process which regards interpersonal relationship as the primary material. Emerging from the context of Ireland’s foster care system; the artist strives ardently to achieve a resolved sense of place, relationship and belonging in the world.
By means of ‘archaic revival’, in materiality: the at least 10,000 year old practice of Cob building, composed of earth, sand, straw and water… and methodology, drawing from the Irish ancestral practice of ‘Meitheal’; the artist is looking to the ancient world to discover remedies and answers.
By reviving these indigenous practices which are thousands of years old, rooted in the interdependence of peoples and their communities, the Artist is forced by the material’s physically demanding characteristics, to collaborate intimately with and depend upon other people for help. This process is then referred to as an intentional yoga, used to confront and heal their wounded sense of interpersonal relationship, while also addressing the collective isolation crisis which claims an increasing amount of lives every day.
In the company of others, ranging from friends, strangers to estranged family, each earthen multiple produced from these intensive social and physical processes, becomes a tangible and animate, quantifiable representation of the Artist’s efforts to cultivate community, belonging and healing in their life. The work becomes a visual argument for love and reconciliation.
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