Cuckoo

About

Zac Bradley, Alex Crocker and Daniel Pettitt have spent the last year working as painters at Bath Spa University, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Brighton respectively.

Each arrived in January 2022 at art schools that they did not attend as students, arriving as strangers. Over twelve months, they have developed their own work, but also engaged with these new communities, interacted with the staff and students and undertaken some teaching.

They have been cuckoos in the nest.

The Freelands Fellowship programme aims to encourage a cross-pollination of practice and ideas. To create the space for approaches fostered in one environment to become part of the conversation in another.

The works of Bradley, Crocker and Pettitt have been informed by a year of conversation with their host universities. Whilst distinct and different from one another, there is a fortuitous synergy. Brought together in this exhibition, they call to one another.