Brad Gunn

Brad Gunn is a sculptor working in a range of contemporary materials and techniques.  Balancing a professional sculpture and fabrication business with his own personal practice he has worked for an array of private and commercial clients. His studio practice is often figurative and explores intimate psychologies and social structures through an ever shifting cultural landscape. The pieces can take on the form of detailed surreal characters or simpler abstract forms. Most work is made using moulding and casting techniques learned over 20 years of experience and are made using resins and gypsums cements.  Each piece is hand sculpted in oil clay for weeks or months before the moulding process begins.       Brad completed a Bachelors Degree at the Victorian College of Arts and has since exhibited in solo and group show both in Australia and overseas establishing himself as an artist and maker in Melbourne.

Flopsy Centrefold is from a series of works titled ‘Fuzzles’ which explores contemporary adult themes using surrealist characters. The figure was based on the Burt Reynolds Cosmopolitan centrefold in 1972 and discusses the fuzzy politics of sexuality in the present day. The piece is inspired by an iconic moment in popular culture and emits a presence by distorting public perceptions of intimacy, gender and love.

From a time when sex was hidden away to the sexual liberation of the 1960s and the current era of hypervisibility and inclusivity its relaxed frame draped in luscious fur serves to combat discussion by embracing its otherness, bringing sexuality back to a raw form.