Farnaz Bradley

Biography

Fari Bradley is an artist working in sculpture, performance and broadcast. Themes in her work are listening, environment, the politics and philosophy of sound, human rights and the art of communication.

With a background in music, languages and literature, Bradley studied classical Euro-American and North Indian classical music, Italian studies for her Bachelors of Arts at UCL (University College London) and moved to UK aged around age 4 speaking only Persian. Since 2010 her research-based arts practice focuses on society and the environment, and her current PhD studies (now in the ifnal year) query Smart City culture.

A weekly broadcaster on Resonance104.4FM 2005-2019, Bradley performed and composed with the Resonance Radio Orchestra, releasing vinyl, CD and digital works on Sub Rosa, The Vinyl Factory, Morphine Records Berlin and more. Bradley's chapter on "Post-Speaker sound art" on materiality in Sound Art is in the Oxford Handbook of Sound Art (2023) and a passage in "Woman, Life, Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran" on Saqi Books. Bradley has reviewed arts and culture on platforms such as BBC 3, BBC 4 and in print (The Wire Magazine and more). Her performance-lecture "Inside-Outside" took place in 2020 at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin.

Bradley's recent works take the textile element of her prior sculptures into a wearable practice revolving around activism. In her solo and joint practice Bradley has resided and exhibited around South West Asia, the Levant, Europe and the UK.