2010’s
'All of Bradbeer's drawings pulse with positive valence – they exude energy rather than drain it from the viewer. Bradbeers definitive aim is to harness the power of the known to light the path to the unknown... The viewers of Bradbeers seductively complex drawings undergo a three part in turn uplift: they respond to obvious and commanding skill, recognize subject matter and are led into the inner reaches of their own inchoate worlds. This places Bradbeer directly in line with a refined contemporary school of artistic thought that uses the human body as a matrix that binds visible form (body) with invisible non-form (mind) to reveal the uncovered continuity and emotional contours of the self – the world one sees but does not notice.'
Associate Professor Ken Wach
'Stigma and Enigma' catalogue essay 2017
'In recent years it would appear that I have particularly addressed the subject of men. My verdict on ourselves hangs in the balance with every work I make. My jury is still out. But I have had the advantage of a greater fluidity in determining the nature and presentation of my work. I more readily collaborate with other artists and I examine myself in relation to other cultures. I have the opportunity also to weave in and out of past and present work identifying constancy and change. I like this and I think it is important for me to do so.'
G.B. in interview with O.B. 2019
2010 Gravitas, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.
2011 Crimes Against Modernity, Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide.
2011 Intermezzo, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.
2012 Men of Paper, (with Christopher Orchard), BMG Art, Adelaide.
2012 Tabula Rasa, Langford 120, Melbourne
2013 Pentimenti, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.
2014 Parallelo, (with Christopher Orchard), Adelaide Central School of Art Gallery, Adelaide.
2015 Delinquent Sublime, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.
2017 Episodes: Then and Now, James makin Gallery, Melbourne.
2017 Godwin Bradbeer - Stigma and Enigma – A Survey, Deakin University, Melbourne
2017 Godwin Bradbeer in Seoul, Space Zero Gallery, Sangmyung University Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 Drawn to the Dark, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland.
2019 Jour et Nuit, (with Nicol Rodriguez) Galerie La Capitale, Paris
2019 Godwin Bradbeer (with Bernard Le Quellec), Galerie Hoge Bomen, Veurne, Belgium