Dan Brady





Almost BlueSong2024
Almost Blue

/ Linocut on Kozo Heavy Weight japanese paper
51 x 68cm 
Carved from the block and hand printed
Edition of 25

Commissioned by Jean Pierre Malin

Reverberations of love. A lament from a small room. The trumpet, furrowed cloud cover; the piano, a window opening. Objects left on the bedside table. We love once, then we pretend... Objects casting an unwanted light. Almost touching, it will almost do.

Kindling Song2023
Kindling

/ Pigment print on Hahnemühle Agave 290gsm
30 x 42 cm
Edition of 100

/Video projection

Situated on the edge of the ocean, on the edge of land, balanced in the sky. A small shelter, a stool to perch upon, facing west. A precarious structure made for a heart that’s falling apart by its own repair.

Shelter
Song2019

Shelter

/ Pigment print on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm
145 x 192mm
Edition of 100

A postcard from a strange year where many things fell apart, where everything was reflected.

PasserinePoem2015
Passerine 

/ Ink on paper
295 x 420mm

A memory and monument to the songbirds.

AbyssNovel (extract)2024
Abyss

/ Linocut on Fabriano Rosaspina 285gsm
247 x 320 mm
Edition of 25

‘You know, it’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness… There is even a moment, right at the start, where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it’.

- Jean Paul Sartre (Nausea)


21 ValentinesSong2020
21 Valentines

/ Pigment print on Hahnemühle Agave 290gsm 
74 x 134mm
Edition of 50, 21 prints in each 

The long life of a terrace house waiting for love to arrive.

21 cigarette cards: anxiety / longing / remorse / contrition / trepidation / concealment / torment / recall / haunted / bitterness / penitence / pining / yearning / remembering / enamoured / dazed / rue / sorrow / lament / reflection / devotion.


Head Rolls OffSong2024
Head Rolls Off

/ Linocut on Velin Arches 250gsm 
50 x 65cm 
Edition of 25

Commissioned by Ronan Melan

The ladder we all climb, knowingly or not; mortal and fragile. Aging, glazed, fired, and cracked. A recognition of the fleeting, infinitesimal moments that make up our lives…

Two BuildingPoem2024
Two Building

/ Somerset Satin White 300gsm
343 x 350 mm
Edition of 25

‘And so we too came where the rest had come,
To where each dreamed, each drew, the other home
From all distractions to the other’s breast,
Where each had found, each was, the wild bird’s nest.
For that we came, and knew that we must know
The thing we know of but we did not know.’

- FT Prince


ChandeliersSong2023
Chandeliers

/ Pigment print on Hahnemühle German Etching 310gsm 
150 x 225mm
Edition of 100, 5 prints in each

A series of chandeliers left hanging in an empty house after moving out.

  1. Sitting for long enough to see in low light. Projections and shadows, finding perspective with old tools and graphite stained hands.
  2. Cut ribbons of stone porticos, bellowed into thread. The mist from late night conversations, ruins on the porch.
  3. Caves with crevices for windows, single perspectives and routine. Voids in the floor, levels rising and repeating. Escape stairs and signs of life.
  4. Listening to the distance and tapping the pedals to sustain being alone. There are queues of repetition from sunrise, a spotlight always.
  5. Watching old movies from rail cars and waiting rooms. Low lights to be put out, sleep to be had. Pushing the floor so hard to pile drive footings, escape.


Heartbreak (in anger)Song2023
Heartbreak (in anger)

/ Video projection

From the series on heartbreak:

Anger. A megalith alongside the freeway. Windows waiting for the tap of feet, clicks of latches. Lights on. Cut hand on the bannister. Dormitories on repeat. Worn stone sundials, warmed by the sun, visited daily, alien at first in the rain. Curtains as hard as plaster. An opera’s facade waiting to be archived.


©Dan Brady 2024

Working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people.