Colleen RJC Bratton

Colleen RJC Bratton’s (she/they) work is inspired by personal meditation. Seeking parallels between the human body and the larger natural body, Bratton creates biomorphic sculptures, installations and drawings where these shared experiences exist in one form. Through a physical and spiritual communion between Bratton’s body and its surrounding natural environment they pull visual, textural and temperature markers. This natural environment takes on many forms: the Sun, the cosmos, the garden, the Earth. Communal recordings are then bolstered by research into these bodies’ symbolism, roles within history and their statuses amidst climate change. Bratton works primarily with found, responsibly gathered materials (flowers, plants, fabric, wood, vintage paperweights, glass and paint). Their creations provide immersive experiences for viewers to consider routes of empathy between themselves and the non-human life forms surrounding them. 

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Colleen RJC Bratton (Seattle, WA) is a sculptor and installation artist whose work focuses on parallels between the human body and the natural world. Bratton received their BA in Visual Arts and Philosophy from Seattle University. They have had solo shows at 4Culture Gallery (WA), SPAC Gallery (WA), Sunspot (WA), and SOIL (WA). Notable group shows include Soft Power at Tacoma Art Museum (WA), Soft Touch at Museum of Museums (WA), Tangents at Sarah Spurgeon Gallery (WA), Bumbershoot Contemporary (Seattle, WA), In-Carnation at Carnation Contemporary (Portland, OR), Graphite at studioe (WA), A Stranger Comes to Town at Spring/Break Art Show (NY), By and By: Hope for the Future at Durden & Ray (CA). In 2019, they were a Stumptown Artist Fellowship recipient. Their work has been reviewed and featured in The Seattle Times, Crosscut, Art Maze Magazine, The Stranger, City Arts, and Booooooom. Since 2017 they have been a member of artist-run gallery SOIL (est. 1995). 

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