Jessica Bradford

Singapore-born, Sydney-raised Australian artist Jessica Bradford works across painting, ceramics, video and installation. She explores her mixed-race heritage, questioning representations of an ‘authentic’ cultural or national identity. Her work in Home and Away riffs on the artificial landscape of an eccentric Singaporean theme park, Haw Par Villa. Bradford’s small porcelain forms emulate the artifice of Chinese gardens, and of the Chinese ‘scholar rocks’, or gongshi, that members of the élite Imperial bureaucracy liked to place on their desks to remind them of the fantastical forms of the natural world.