Jim Brodie
Brodie uses lithography and mixed media techniques, digital manipulation of photographs, screen-prints and photo- or electronic collage. His work also encompasses a combination of communication media such as billboards, posters, pulp-magazine art, television and film clips, from the past as well as the present. He may use archival inks and paper or combine photo-processes with traditional print-making. Many of his works are figurative, but convey social commentary on contemporary issues, such as greed and hypocrisy, the exploitation of the environment or the treatment of migrants or minority groups.
He has served as Artist in Residence and taught print-making and graphic design in various art institutions in Australia. He has also held solo exhibitions in various galleries throughout Brisbane, Sydney and Tasmania.
His etching and screen-print, Pipeline Anatomy #1 (1977), was featured in a retrospective exhibit, Made in Calgary: The 1970s, held in 2013 at Calgary’s Glenbow Museum. It forms part of curator Mary-Beth Laviolette’s book, Made in Calgary: An Exploration of Art from the 1960s to the 2000s, published by the Glenbow in 2016.