About Brad Race
Brad Race is a painter and craftsperson whose practice moves between bold, expressive painting and the physical intensity of blacksmithing.
His paintings are deeply influenced by the colour-saturated freedom of Fauvism and the experimental disruption of Dadaism, embracing both raw emotion and playful irreverence.
Energy, Immediacy, and Expression
In parallel, Brad works as a blacksmith, forging knives, hatchets, utensils, and jewellery. This dual practice allows him to blur the boundaries between fine art and functional craft — exploring colour, form, and material transformation across canvas and steel alike.
For Brad, both painting and forging are acts of energy, immediacy, and expression, rooted in tradition yet constantly reshaped through experimentation.
