Jennifer Brady

Jennifer Brady is a Sydney based emerging artist. In 2018 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of New South Wales - Art & Design, specialising in Drawing and Photography. Primarily engaging with language and ‘word art’, Brady has been actively involved in group shows since mid 2016 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Solo exhibitions include Betwixt & Between (2018) at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney; This is a Conversation Piece (2019), curated by Sarah Rose, at 107 Projects, Redfern; and i think maybe i’ll try to start figuring it out now (2020) at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney. Also operating in curatorial realms, Brady co-curated the outdoor exhibition Piece of Mind (2018) at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios with Yanchen Li for Mental Health Month, and curated the group shows d.i.why? (2019) at Kudos Gallery, Paddington and Crossword (2019) at AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington. Brady is a co-founder of Sydney-based printmaking collective, More Than Reproduction - a platform seeking to celebrate and promote female-identifying artists, curators and creatives with a particular focus on printmaking practices.  She has been a finalist for the Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award (2017), Jenny Birt Award (2018), the Kudos Emerging Artist and Designer Award (2018), and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Awards (2020).

#22 | Nice nice, 2020, monoprint on Hahnemuhle, Unique state, 27 x 19.5 cm. NFS.

This print has given me a whole whirlwind of feelings, as do most monoprints. I made it with hopes of it being clean, legible and simple. Instead the paper was too wet, the paint/ink wasn’t mixed completely, and the pigment just bled into the fibrous paper giving a weird 'fuzzy' effect - I absolutely hated. Fortunately, I kept it in my big pile of prints in case I changed my mind. I love this print now and I'm so glad it didn't turn out how I originally intended. The only issue now is that I haven't been able to recreate it.