The works in the show will include Bradford’s ‘post Pollock’ dipping technique; this is a strict procedure in which carefully chosen everyday objects are methodically transformed into graphic sculptures with a new skin, in part hiding the original article’s identity.

The work Hermetic Seel, a Chambers encyclopedia published in 1959, forms the basis of Bradford’s HOME FROM HOME exhibition. As the title suggests the 14 volumes are ‘sealed’ as part of an attempt to re-work the art historical canon. Each volume, having been opened at the entry of a selected artist, has been ‘dripped’ and the designs are transformed into a pastiche of the chosen artist’s work.  The content is forever sealed behind the appetising new covers, rendering the reference books beautifully redundant. ‘By defacing, obscuring and rendering useless information, there is a risk here of willful ignorance and vandalism. Or maybe this is the point - objects become decoration, ideas survive’. (Åbäke)

The exhibition will run from the 4th September until 16th October, 2009.