Brad Holland
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Brad Holland is an award winning artist based in Adelaide South Australia, whose paintings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally.

Through his works, he delves into his past and formative experiences to develop a personal visual language, absorbing cues from his exploration of 1970’s and 1980’s computer graphics, sci-fi visual effects, optical illusions, internal visions and twenty years experience as a Visual Merchandiser for leading department stores.

Originally a skillfull figurative painter, Holland now utilises masking tape and hard edge techniques as a direct response to overcome the shaking in his hands due to a degenerative condition known as essential tremor. He has now distilled this technique and experiences within the formal structure of hard edge abstract painting methodology in the tradition of Josef Albers and Victor Vasarely, among others. From this his current practice has developed into two main abstract threads - pulsating rectangles and transparent planes. Immersive transitions of tone and colour are the core focus of both.

“My intention is to transport myself and the audience to another place where colour, form and composition evoke a uniquely personal engagement and response, to become lost or found within the painted surface”.