Finn Bradburn

Finn Bradburn is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil paint. In his practice, he explores the various intersections of sound and visual art to create large-scale figurative paintings. In recent work, Finn draws inspiration from the sound waves of audio visualisation, his experience in competitive sailing, and their shared dynamics of control and tuning. The influence of Ryuichi Sakamoto and his approach to time and spatiality across sound and image prompts him to address time in a similar fashion. Using recurring motifs—overlapping figures, ropes, and cables.

Through translating characteristics of songwriting—layering, deliberate use of ambiguity, and shifts in rhythm and tone—into visual form, Finn develops ideas in a meticulous and structured way not too dissimilar to musical composition. Each painting emerges through a sequential process of research, photography, digital image manipulation, and drawing.