BETSY BRADLEY BIOGRAPHY
Betsy Bradley (b.1992, Bath) lives and works in Rugby, UK. She studied BA Painting at Brighton University, including a 4 month residency in Nagoya, Japan, followed by MA Fine Art at Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University and the Turps Correspondence Course.
Bradley had her first institutional solo exhibition this year at Ikon gallery in Birmingham. She has exhibited across the UK and in Japan, including: Coventry Biennial 2019 with New Art West Midlands, Coventry; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; The Artist Project Space, Bristol; QUAD, Derby and Grand Union, Birmingham.
EDUCATION
Turps Art School, Turps Correspondence Course: 2018 – 2019
Birmingham School of Art, MA Fine Art: 2017 – 2018
University of Brighton, BA Fine Art PainFng: 2012 – 2015
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Current: Singing with the Tide, Katie Lindsay Gallery, Northern Ireland
2021 Chasing Rainbows, Ikon, Birmingham, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019
Coventry Biennial, The Herbert Museum, Coventry, UK
Summer Camp, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Cosmic Fishing, Kosar Contemporary, Bristol, UK
Made/Unmade, QUAD, Derby, UK
On The Subject of Precarity, Grand Union, Birmingham, UK
Forward: New Art from Birmingham, Ikon, Birmingham, UK
Showroom, The Piano Shop Bath, Bath, UK
2018
Houses of the Holy, Stryx, Birmingham, UK
Turn Out, MA Show, Birmingham School of Art, UK
Assemblage, InternaFonal Project Space, UK
Hotdog Repair, Birmingham School of Art, UK
2017
Upstairs Downstairs, Coventry Evening Telegraph Building, Coventry, UK
2016
Bad Art, Bones & Pearls Studios, London, UK
Calligraphic AbstracFon, Gallery Be, Nagoya, Japan
2015
Made It, University of Brighton Degree Show, Brighton UK
Contemporary Calligraphy, Gallery Be, Nagoya, Japan
2014
GO, Gallery Be, Nagoya, Japan
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
Eastside Projects Expanded Studio Bursary 2019
Grand Union Graduate Residency, Grand Union, Birmingham, August 2018 – August 2019
Royal Drawing School Dumfries House Residency, Dumfries, January 2018
Mike Holland Trust £6000 Bursary Award, 2017
Nagoya University of Arts Residency exchange, Nagoya, Japan, April – August 2014