Biography

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Finn Bradburn is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil paint, alongside installation,

sculpture, and digital media. In his practice, he explores the various intersections of sound and visual art to create large-scale figurative paintings. In recent work, Finn draws inspiration from the sound waves of audio visualisation, his experience in competitive sailing, and their shared dynamics of control and tuning. Particularly influenced by Ryuichi Sakamoto and his approach to time and spatiality across sound and image; recurring motifs—overlapping figures, ropes and cables—enable Finn to address time in a similar fashion.

 

He develops ideas in a meticulous and structured way not too dissimilar from that of musical composition. Each painting emerges through a sequential process of research, photography, digital image manipulation and drawing. Translating characteristics of songwriting—layering, deliberate use of ambiguity, and shifts in rhythm and tone—into visual form.