CURATION
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VISUAL ARTS
Brad has commissioned and curated significant exhibitions by visual artists Steven Rhall: Defunctionalised Autonomous Objects 2018 (Melbourne Festival), Shireen Taweel: Tracing Transcendence, 2018, Sofi Basseghi: Ripples from the Unseen, 2021, Tina Havelock Stevens: Nature Extemporize, 2022, Amos Gebhardt: Spooky Action at a Distance, 2021, and gallery shows by performance artists including Robbie Avenaim: Motorgenic, 2016, Alisdair Macindoe: Noncompete, 2018, Gail Priest: We are Oscillators, 2022 and ground-breaking theatre company Back to Back Theatre: We are People, 2017.
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PERFORMANCE
At The Substation and Brisbane Powerhouse, Brad curated music, dance, theatre and experimental performance programs. Significant programs at The Substation include Pieces (curated with Lucy Guerin), Melbourne Festival programs (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019) featuring Robbie Thompson, MESS, Chamber Made, Matthias Schack-Arnott, Kukangendai, Asuna, the Australian Art Orchestra, Jim White, Claudia De Serpa Soares and Eve Sussman. In 2019, he curated the Dance Massive program at The Substation, which featured new works by Lilian Steiner, Rachel Arianne Ogle, Gideon Obarzanek and Margie Medlin.
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SOUND
As the Artistic Director of The Substation, Brad established a year-round sound art program across the performance and gallery spaces. This program included works by Ellen Fullman: Long String Instrument, Tim Humphrey and Madeliene Flynn, Tetsuya Umeda, Alisdair Macindoe: Non-compete, Jon Rose: The Violin Generator and Marginal Consort.
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MUSIC
Throughout the year, particularly for OHM 2023 and 2024, Brad devised and curated a new contemporary music program for the Brisbane Powerhouse. This program saw many younger audiences attend the venue for the first time. Major artists and new works presented as part of this program include Peaches: The Teaches of Peaches, Yothu Yindi, The Chills, Son Little, Max Cooper, Kae Tempest, Black Midi, The Necks, WITCH, The Wilds, Nakhane, The Chills and Dots and Loops.
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OUTDOOR
As part of Night Feast and through The Substation program, Brad has curated works for outdoor spaces in Melbourne and Brisbane. These programs have included newly commissioned works by Arka Kinari, Tom Muller: Steam Works, Bridie Hooper: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Christian Thompson and Leeroy New. In 2023, he curated a major outdoor participatory work by New York-based artist Spencer Tunick along the Brisbane River, the Maiwar. Whilst the Artistic Director of The Substation, he curated and commissioned new outdoor works by Michaela Gleave, The Bait Fridge, Justin Shoulder, Hayley Millar-Baker, and Lawrence English.
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ONLINE
During the COVID-19 shutdowns across 2020 and 2021 in Melbourne, Brad curated several online projects, including PLATFORM and LISTEN. PLATFORM saw Minecraft craft educator Eduelfie recreate a model of The Substation building within a Minecraft server that audiences could ‘attend’. Local and international electronic music artists were commissioned to present new works as the soundtrack, visual artists works were presented in the online gallery spaces, and gaming and digital artists were commissioned to make new interactive works within the world of PLATFORM. LISTEN saw a roster of local ambient musicians broadcast to The Substation audiences as a weekly podcast, designed as a moment of quiet and reflection among the noise of the extended lockdowns.