Casting attractive
young film stars Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth, respectively, as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley makes Mary Shelley, director Haifaa al - Mansour's biopic of the
mother of Gothic fiction, a kind of grandfather's paradox of the modern
wave of eroticized
young - adult romantic fantasy, reconfiguring the ancestor to match its descendant.
The first room creates a physical experience, pushing the view to the periphery with an imposing bulbous sculpture, while the second creates safe places for the artist as a
young boy, evoking Bradford's
mother's hair salon in large paintings created from purple - black end papers used for permanent
waves and a paper sculpture representing Medusa's head as a hiding place.
Solo exhibitions include «The Birth of Form»,
Mothers Tankstation Limited, Dublin, 2017; «Doubles», Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney; «Jungle Paintings», Murray White Room, Melbourne; «Moods», The
Young, Wellington, 2016; «Nine Times Modern Man and Moon», Siegfried Contemporary, London; «House of Joy / Hello Ladies», Chapter House Lane, Melbourne; «Alasdair McLuckie», with
Mothers Tankstation, Liste, Basel, 2015; «Two Lovers Sit on a Beach Dreaming at the Night Sky as the
Waves Wave Hello to their Eternal Moon Friend, Who Smiles and
Waves Right Back», Murray White Room, Melbourne; and «Cosmic Soul Sugar», Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2014.