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Shane Bradford

Shane Bradford follows in a long tradition of 20th century painters enamoured with post-Pollock paint drips. But Bradford enacts his painterly fetish with one vital spelling difference: drip becomes dip.

He has been methodically and insistently dipping objects in sequences of technicolour emulsion. Lollypop stick, baby s dummy, Paul Smith toothbrush, toy car and spoon. Each is subjected to a precision process which eventually renders the original object an ossified version of itself, seemingly appended by a thick drip of still, concentric paint.

Bradfords luscious, sweet objects employ paint to remind us that desire is an index of mortality. Eat this, sate your desire, and be prepared to pay the price for your pleasure principle. (Extract from Eat My Desire by Shumon Basar, published in Sexy Machinery (issue 09, 2003)

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