Bradford Barrier Bag – 8/10

Bradford Barrier Bag
8/10
43 x 43 x 25cm (17 x 17 x10in)
Painted canvas, calico lining, striped cotton webbing handles, veg tanned suede shoulder strap, metal fixtures
2022

*Please note: The bags are not printed! Each one is a uniquely fabricated from real studio paintings by the artist.

‘This truly unique edition of highly crafted shoulder bags are cut from the fine canvas cloth of a genuine Shane Bradford painting.  The ergonomic interactions we have with our bags, the reaching-in, the weighing-down, the bodily strapping the grabbed handles amount to an extension of our natural selves. A good bag blends with its wearer, it serves its intimate and practical function whilst advertising its master’s superior taste and savoir faire. A bag is a buddy, a mule, and on occasion is the only thing that stands between you and other human beings in close proximity. Yes, it’s a protective barrier, but one to be breached, one to be shown off, and one to collect.’