Braddon Snape
Artist Bio
Braddon Snape is a nationally recognised Newcastle based artist who specialises in three-dimensional practice including large-scale public artworks. Over the past 25 years Snape has developed a practice that now encompasses sculpture, installation, video and performance in a diverse range of media, earning a reputation for conceptually rich works revealed through a minimal aesthetic and an astute understanding and sensitivity to materials and media. His current practice interrogates a dangerously exciting and new method of inflating steel. This performative process developed whilst researching for the PhD gives his work a renewed freedom, where it reveals a delicate dialogue between control and chance that has been aptly described as Action Sculpture.
Highlights of his career to date include participation in Sculpture by the Sea seven times, a finalist in the McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize; ISF Korea; Winner of Sculpture on the Farm 2018; Materiality Performed, Maitland Region Art Gallery; Hunter Red – Corpus, Newcastle Art Gallery; Internal Pressure, The Lock-Up, Newcastle; An act of Restraint, Nanda Hobbs, Chippendale and numerous significant Public Art commissions that demonstrate a thorough and nuanced understanding of materiality and site. Public art commissions include Landcom Vantage, Port Stephens; The SubWharfyen, Sydney Wharf, Pyrmont and most recently Clouds Gathering, a large public art installation for Maitland City Council.
Snape’s work is held in national and international collections including Crown Hatai, Seoul, Korea; Bretton Hall, College of Arts, University of Leeds, UK; Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Sydney; Newcastle Art Gallery; Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery; Maitland Regional Gallery; Port Stephens Council; The University of Newcastle; private collections in Australia, Great Britain, China and USA.
Snape currently lectures in Sculpture at The University of Newcastle where he has just completed a PhD and is the Founder and Director of the Newcastle artist studios and gallery initiative The Creator Incubator. Snape is represented by Nanda Hobbs Sydney.
