Beastman - COMPLEX
BEASTMAN (Bradley Eastman)
Showcase Exhibition
Outré Gallery Fitzroy
12 Jun - 5 Jul 2026
Opening Night
6–8pm on Friday, 12 Jun 2026
319 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Drinks provided by Range Life Wine & Bodriggy Brewing Co.
Bradley Eastman (Beastman) is a multidisciplinary artist from Sydney, Australia.
Influenced by the biodiversity, symbolism and design aesthetics of organic growth patterns and natural landscapes, Bradley’s vibrant and energetic paintings, digital illustration, commercial projects and public mural artworks explore a unique visual language, depicting future environments of abstracted geometric landscapes, potential new life forms and human intervention with nature.
A distinctive and prolific contemporary Australian artist, Bradley has exhibited his artworks extensively around the world, has curated and produced numerous international art exhibitions and projects, and has created commissioned artwork for clients such as Facebook, Mini, Hyundai, Apple, Westfield, Adidas, Red Bull, Stockland, Marriott, GPT, Vicinity, Merivale and more. His artwork has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, and his large solo and collaborative mural and installation works can be found all over Australia and around the world.
Artist statement
This ongoing series of paintings explores the intricate relationships between human life, natural landscapes and the built environment, not as separate forces, but as interdependent systems in constant exchange, expansion and collaboration. Years of refinement underpin this visual language. Gradients of colour, measured grids and precise compositional frameworks converge to construct balanced visual fields pulsing with the spirit of life.
Repetitive motifs and evolving substructures accumulate and combine, forming complex networks and futuristic landscapes that suggest growth, movement and connection. While each individual artwork operates within carefully considered parameters, the paintings collectively hold a tension between order and vitality, between architectural precision and organic expansion, reflecting the energy of the city itself and the natural landscape that once was.
Eyes appear embedded within the compositions, encouraging viewers to reconsider the urban landscape not as static infrastructure, but as a living system shaped by human intention, emotion and experience. Working predominantly with aerosol paint, a medium that requires confidence, control and physical intuition, each painting is built through patient masking and layering, a process developed over years of installing large-scale mural works. Subtle imperfections remain visible within the surfaces, affirming the artist’s hand and the delicacy of the medium, while acknowledging the impossibility (and perhaps undesirability) of perfection.
