Peter Bradley

Pink Triangle, 2025

Oil on panel, triptych | Unframed (each panel): 150 x 85 x 4 cm

‘There is a vivid ecstasy that uniquely captures queer joy on the site of the dancefloor, where many of us, for the first time, became ourselves. It is in these often-furtive club spaces where queer and trans folks find catharsis, no longer limited in their self-expression or expected social performances.’ Dr El Reid-Buckley writes, ‘Pink Triangle offers audiences a snapshot into how we make and remake ourselves through one another; through the sway and the swerve, in moments of scintillation’. - Peter Bradley.

Peter Bradley is a painter and mixed-media artist, who works primarily with the human figure to explore themes of identity. He has received several awards, including the Anita Young Bursary Award and the R.C. Lewis Crosby Award for painting, and has been shortlisted for both the Zurich and Hennessy Portrait Prize. He has exhibited in solo and duo shows at the Highlanes Gallery, the Galway International Arts Festival, and the Linenhall Arts Centre, and has shown work in group exhibitions at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, The Butler Gallery and other venues. Bradley lives and works in Galway City.

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