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. Courtesy: the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

Inexplicit Content will be Braddon Snape’s first major exhibition in Melbourne and debut exhibition with James Makin Gallery. This body of sculptural work features Snape’s extraordinary process of air inflated steel. During the somewhat organic act of inflation, resistant or suppressing forces are at play: clamps feature as suppressors in the act, inhibiting inflation, suppressing potential, creating clefts and folds.

Snape is a nationally recognised artist, based in Newcastle (Australia), specialising 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.

Opening Event: Saturday 18 May, 2 – 4pm.

Follow this artist