Ry bradley biography

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Ry Bradley is an award-winning country music artist who brings his dynamic stage presence and innovative country sound with him wherever he goes. Growing up in Hawaii and California, he was exposed to many types of music which helped him develop his own unique sound. Ry received the 2014 LA Music Award for “Country Artist of the Year.”

We recently caught up with Ry to learn about his upcoming album, his work for the victims of the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest shooting, and what he likes most about his Wayfarer theme.

When and how did you start playing guitar?

I got a guitar at 10, but I was bummed that it wasn’t an electric. I stuck a microphone in the sound hole! I took a few lessons at 11 and after I sent a tape (remember those) of myself playing to my dad in Hawaii, I got a white knockoff Stratocaster for my 12th birthday. I’ve never wanted a “thing” more in my life and I still have that guitar.

What kind of musical influence did growing up in Hawaii and California have on you?

Songs have a life of their own and in Hawaii, people didn’t real

Born in Melbourne in 1979, Ry David Bradley completed his MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013 before relocating to London where he now lives and works.

 

Ry David Bradley's exploration of visual representation is fuelled by a constant negotiation between the history of manual image-making and the rising influence of digital artifice within the cultural imaginary. Having never worked with a brush on canvas, for the last twenty years Ry David Bradley has been forging a new path for the next generation of digital painters; a group for whom artistic expression will be best realized using software tools.

​If the primary interest of any artist is to capture something of the time in which they are living, Bradley's practice is focused on responding to and pre-empting how digital technologies will alter our visual experience of the world. In the same way that still life painting first emerged as a reactionary attempt to halt the decaying effects of time on beautiful matter, Bradley produces material images of the twenty-first century that similarly aspire to encour

RY DAVID BRADLEY1979Born in Melbourne Lives and works in New York City and Melbourne  Solo Exhibitions2017PM/AM Gallery, London, UK Room with a Views, The Hole, New York, NY POST TRUTH II, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR2016Overworld, COMA Gallery, Sydney, AU Unvalley Valley, Evelyn Yard, London, UK2015Not To Be Digitized, Tristian Koenig, Sydney, AU Where Do You Want To Go Today, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT Access All Areas, Bill Brady Gallery, Kansas City, MO Border Protection, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne, AU2014Picture Movement, Utopian Slumps Gallery, Melbourne, AU2010About Blank (with Parker Ito), Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne, AU2008Pauser, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, AU  Selected Group Exhibitions2017New Dawn, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE Searching for magic and the distorted image falling from your iCloud, The Dot Project, London,

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