In Other People’s Lives Bradshaw’s pictorial narrative recalls the sophistication of Italian Mannerists as well as Flemish realist painters. His surprising technique has been honed over years of careful research, leading to a considerable mastery of color and light and a technique wherein multiple thin layers of oil paint are built up on metallic supports (copper and zinc). His notable familiarity with the technique of glazing compares favorably with contemporary masters like Paul Cadden and Ralph Goings. Not unlike Goings, Bradshaw’s realism translates an intimate retelling of the indecipherable lives ‘of others’ into a ‘Pop’ reality, a condition where objects and bodies assume value for what they are. He does not distance himself from them, recounting their condition beyond a hypothetical individual existence. They appear, and that which they reveal is no more than their place in an epic reality which cannot hide their inadequacy. Here the objects and characters that are depicted reveal their essence. They are without history or function, they are ‘spent tubes of paint and keys hanging unused, for locks that perhaps no longer exist’.

- Fabio Galadini
Direttore Civitafestival