Instrumental by Chuck Bradley
Iconic Australian rock musicians from the 60s, 70s and 80s through to the present day have inspired the latest exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum.
Chuck Bradley’s latest series, Instrumental, features vivid photographic studies of the instruments of some of Australia’s most influential and celebrated rock musicians, as well as stories that illuminate the connection between the musicians and their ‘tools of the trade’.
Exhibition curator Ross Heathcote said the exhibition is the work of acclaimed American-born and Scotland Island-based still life photographer, Chuck Bradley. “Outside his photography, Chuck is also a bit of a muso himself, playing drums in a blues band, Sly Dogs.
“People know these iconic instruments and associate them with memorable sounds and events but never get to see them up close,” Bradley says. “These are like revealing portraits of the instruments themselves.”