For NADA Miami 2025, the artist presents two oil on canvaspaintings that read as afterimages of surveillance and state enclosure. Her icy palette and tight forecropping recall the urban nocturnes of Utrillo as if refracted through Archigram’s retro-futurist dystopias. Bradley’s newest paintings operate through a dialectic of exposure and occlusion, effecting an incisive
meditation on how contemporary urban space interpellates forms of control. In these newest works, the artist foregrounds sites in which the distributive asymmetries of capital confuate, distilling Kavan’s phenomenology of dissociation whose protagonists appear stranded at the edge of a consumerist tundra.

Ursula Bradley (b. 1997 in Auckland, Aotearoa) lives and works in London. She gained her BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2021. Solo exhibitions: “High-Rise,” Cheremoya, Los Angeles (2025); “Working,” Envy, Wellington (2025); “Down and Out in Paris and London,” Heart Galerie, Paris (2024); “Hoarders,” Satchi & Satchi & Satchi, Auckland (2022).
Group exhibitions: “NADA Miami 2025,” with Cheremoya, Miami; “The Dowse Art Museum,” Lower
Hutt, Wellington; “Three new artists,” Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland; “Lindy walks to Countdown Mt Eden,” Envy, Wellington (2022).