Braddon Snape

Artist Profile

Biography

Dr Braddon Snape is a nationally recognised Newcastle (Australia) based artist who specialises in three-dimensional practice including large-scale public artworks. Over the past 27 years Snape has developed a practice utilising a diverse range of media that now encompasses sculpture, installation, video, and performance, earning Snape a reputation for conceptually rich works revealed through a minimal aesthetic and an astute understanding and sensitivity to materials, media, and site. His current practice interrogates a dangerously exciting and new method of inflating steel. This performative process developed whilst researching for his PhD gives Snape’s work a renewed freedom, where it reveals a delicate dialogue between control and chance that has been aptly described as Action Sculpture. Snape’s recent addition of crafted light has added another dimension to his ever-evolving practice.

Highlights include: 2023 finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize; Winner of the Lake Prize 2022; Blake Prize finalist 2022; Things are not as they appear (Smoke and Mirrors), Nanda Hobbs Sydney and Grafton Regional Gallery 2021; Internal Pressure, The LockUp Contemporary Art Space, Newcastle 2019; Clouds Gathering, Public artwork commissioned by Maitland City Council for The Riverlink Building 2018; International Sculpture Festa 2012, Seoul, South Korea; Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Finalist 2009; McClelland Sculpture Survey Award Finalist 2007.

BIOGRAPHY

Exhibitions

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Things are not as the appear, Grafton Regional Gallery

2019
Things are not as they appear (Smoke and Mirrors), Nanda Hobbs, Chippendale
An Act of restraint, Nanda Hobbs, Chippendale

2018
Internal Pressure, The Lockup Contemporary Art Space, Newcastle

2017
INtangible Content, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, East Sydney

2016
The INvisible Void, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, East Sydney
Materiality Performed – Maitland Regional Art Gallery

2008
Internal Forces – Braddon Snape, Spot 81, Chippendale
Braddon Snape – unclassified, John Miller Gallery, Newcastle

2006
Braddon Snape – John Miller Gallery, Newcastle

2004
Installation, Negotiating The Void – Newcastle Region Art Gallery

2002
Braddon Snape – John Miller Gallery, Newcastle
Installation, The Matrix Configurations – Intrados Gallery, Newcastle

2000
32 – Lindsay St Gallery, Hamilton

1999
MFA Exhibition – Angst, Equilibrium & The Other – John Paynter Gallery,
Newcastle

1996
Braddon Snape – von Bertouch Galleries, Newcastle

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Upriver Downriver, Maitland Regional Art Gallery

2022
Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art & Culture (MAC), Lake Macquarie
The Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse

2020
Sydney Contemporary Presents

2018
Hunter Red: Corpus, Newcastle Art Gallery
Incubating Fibre, Timeless Textiles Gallery, Newcastle

2017
Sydney Contemporary, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Carriageworks
Soft Core Artist Showcase, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery

2016
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, East Sydney

2015
Next to Nothing (Art as Performance), The Lockup, Newcastle
Just Paper, Maitland Regional Art Gallery

2014
Clouds Intersected, China Cultural Centre, Sydney
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi

2013
25 Watt, Watt Space 25th Anniversary, Newcastle

2012
Sculpture 2013, Syndicate @ Danks, Sydney (Waterloo)
Inspiring Artists, Pat Corrigan Grant Recipients, Maitland Region Art Gallery
Absence, Forsight Gallery, Newcastle
Absence, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Waterloo
International Sculpture Festa 2012, Seoul, Korea

2010
Sculpture by the Sea – Bondi

2009
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize – Woollahra, Sydney
Arousing Newcastle – Art Systems Wickham, Newcastle
Art Works – Staff show Newcastle Art School, Front Room Gallery, Newcas
Now – Art Systems Wickham, Newcastle

2008
Jam – Newcastle Art School Staff Exhibition, Front Room Gallery, Newcastle
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi

2007
McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award – Langwarrin, Victoria
Sculpture 2007 – Maunsell Wickes @ Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney

2006
Sculpture by the Sea – Bondi
Sculpture 2006 – Maunsell Wickes @ Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney

2005
Art and About, curated by Stella Downer – AMP Headquarters, Sydney
Sculpture by the Sea – Bondi
Sculpture Inside – Maunsell Wickes @ Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
Recent Acquisitions – Newcastle Region Gallery

2004
Sculpture by the Sea – Bondi
Sculpture 2004 Global Gallery – Paddington, Sydney

2003
Sculpture by the Sea – Bondi
House Show – Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney
Byrnes, Snape, Speight – Maitland City Art Gallery
Sculpture 2003 (Objective forms & Formal Objects) – Global Gallery, Paddington, Sydney

2001
Yesterdays River Today – Maitland City Art Gallery

2000
Inaugural exhibition – Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle West

1999
Drawing from the Word – Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery

1998
Future Perfect – ACUADS Conference, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
Iced Novos – PCL Exhibitionists, Sydney

1997
Guest Sculptor – Bretton Hall, College of Arts, The University of Leeds, UK
Sculptor in Residence – Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery

1996
Collectors Choice – von Bertouch Galleries, Cooks Hill

1994
National Tertiary Art Prize (Finalist) – Hobart, Tasmania

1989
Sculpture and Works on Paper – Architects Snell, Newcastle

Awards

AWARDS

2023
Finalist: Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize

2022
Winner: Lake Art Prize, Museum of Art & Culture (MAC), Lake Macquarie
Finalist: Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse, Casula

2021
Rupio Prize for Metallurgical Excellence, Sculpture on the Farm, Dungog

2018
Prize for Innovation, Sculpture on the Farm, Dungog

2011
Acquisitive Award, Sculpture on the Farm

2009
Lower Hunter Urban Design Award: Vantage Public Art
Finalist – Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney

2007
Finalist – McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award, Langwarrin, Victoria

2004
Highly Commended – Casuarina Sculpture Walk, Casuarina, New South Wales

2003
The Australian Unrepresented Sculptor Award – Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi
Central Coast Festival of Arts Sculpture Award Highly Commended

2002
Central Coast Festival of Arts Sculpture Award Winner
Winning Sculpture – Newcastle Regional Art Competition

2001
Newcastle Regional Art Competition – 3rd

1998
Macquarie Manufacturing Post Graduate Award for Sculpture

1997
Royal Newcastle Hospital 180th Anniversary – Art Prize, 3rd

1996
Winning Sculpture – Newcastle Regional Art Competition

1994
Finalist – National Tertiary Art Prize, Hobart

1993
Joe Punshon Memorial Prize for Excellence in Sculpture – The University of Newcastle

1988
John Mudge Memorial Art Prize – Hunter Institute of TAFE

ARTWORKS

Braddon Snape Small Act of Suppression (horizontal red) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 25.5 x 54 x 7.5 cm $2,600.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Small Act of Suppression (vertical yellow) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 64 x 17 x 6 cm $2,600.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (red drop) 2024 Welded, inflated and powdercoated stainless steel. Welded and powdercoated steel. 26.5 x 50 x 87.5 cm $7,000.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (slippage) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 73.5 x 40 x 23.5 cm $6,750.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (with a hint of optimism) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 80 x 55 x 11.5 cm $6,500.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (ideas edited) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 28 x 100 x 12.5 cm $7,700.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (long black line) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 180 x 53 x 23 cm $5,900.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (mirrored union) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel & Stainless steel hardware. 61 x 60 x 39 cm $8,000.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (mirror mirror) 2024 Welded, mirror polished and inflated stainless steel. Powdercoated steel & Stainless steel hardware. 150 x 65 x 19 cm $11,750.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (repression) 2023 Welded, inflated and powdercoated stainless steel. Welded and powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 239.5 x 58 x 21 cm $9,000.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Act of Suppression (double whammy) 2023 Welded, inflated and powdercoated stainless steel. Welded and powdercoated steel. Stainless steel hardware. 73 x 160 x 49 cm $15,000.00 ENQUIRE →
Braddon Snape Allusive Object (Ratchet Pod) 2021 welded, mirror polished and cold inflated stainless steel 66 x 66 x 63 cm $15,000.00 ENQUIRE →