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Shane Bradford is a British painter (born 1971) who is particularly known for objects that span painting and sculpture: selected objects are dipped into gloss paint in a process of precise sequences. These dipped objects (often books) are usually appended by his trademark solid drips of thick paint.

Bradford won the Celeste Art Prize (2007) for Moths, from a series of wall installations made with dipped objects attached to darts. Moths featured in England & Co's exhibition Is there anybody out there? (2008). Bradford has exhibited widely in Britain, Europe and the USA. Paintings   

This Cult of Violence 2009
12.25 x 8.25 x 2 inches
Gloss paint, metallic emulsion, on hardback book

Private collection

A Clockwork Orange 2010
8.25 x 4.75 x 1.75 inches
Gloss paint on paperback book

Private collection

Games People Play 2009
8 x 4.5 x 1.5 inches
Gloss paint on paperback book

Private collection

Heads/Auerbach 2009
12.25 x 19 x 3 inches
Hardback book, gloss paint, acrylic, metallic emulsion

Private collection

Masterpiece of Modern Art 2010
14.5 x 10.5 x 2 inches
Metallic emulsion, gloss paint, on hardback book

Private collection

Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From Bauhaus to the New World, Achim Borchardt-Hume 2006
11.75 x 9.5 x 2 inches
Exhibition catalogue (Tate publishing, 2006), gloss paint

Private collection

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 2006
9 x 4.75 x 0.75 inches
Gloss paint on paperback book

Private collection

It must be some kind of message 2008

Gloss paint, typewriter

Private collection

Moths 2006-07
60 x 60 inches
Gloss paint, darts, model soldiers/planes and lightbulb