Bradfield

Bradfield Dumpleton has devoted a lifetime (50+ years) to creative process. His work has included: professional cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, musician and writer; community artist, creative mentor and arts educator with 30+ years teaching experience. He has designed and facilitated numerous specialist creative programs with a focus on creativity and well-being, in areas such as remedial and gifted education, at-risk youth and mental health.

Rock albums 2018 – 2021

For a quick overview of my loosely-genred “rock” experiments between 2017 – 2019, try my two Rock Samples compilations.  They are both available as free downloads (or pay if you want to) from my Bandcamp site.  You’ll find the individual album links below.  For a more detailed insight into each of the original “rock” albums

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The Ears Have Walls (2017)

Between 2003 – 2016 I was pretty obsessed by acoustic music from all over the world, in particular the authentic voice of acoustic instruments.  I’d pushed my acoustic guitar playing into increasingly complex territory with the gypsified Spondooli Brothers duo, dabbled in a few other folk instruments like mandolin & balalaika, and when I began

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Publishing Projects: Bruny Island PS artist residencies 2001 / 2004

Bruny Island Holiday Book:  In early 2001 I moved from Melbourne to the isolated rural community of Bruny Island in Southern Tasmania.  I quickly developed an ongoing creative relationship with the small local primary school, which averaged about 30 students.  Then-principal Gay Cumming secured funding for a Numeracy & Literacy Artist-in-Residence project – I provided

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SKIN (2017)

Uke takes a backseat in this new collection of original tunes, mostly-instrumental music influenced by my love of African & AfroCuban rhythms.  Danceable organic grooves, hypnotic atmospheres, driven by traditional percussion and a spirit of renewal. New Skin – Bradfield Dumpleton 2017 (Mya Moe ukulele, electric guitars, cello bass, keyboard, cajon, dun dun, lizard sticks,

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Pigbox & Co. Vol 1 & 2 (2016)

Pigbox & Co. Vol 1 and Vol 2 are two albums of instrumentals & songs inspired by my metal-bodied resonator ukulele, whom I affectionately named PIGBOX.  A ramshackle assortment of gutterblues, loose jazz, americana, folkalisms and lyrical noodlings, accompanied by a variety of other instruments and found sounds. As mentioned in Early Ukelele Explorations (2005

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Cartoon Illustration – Knox City Council (2007 – 2016)

Community arts, health & well-being and education seem to be where I gravitate in my creative work.  Over the last 20 years I’ve often been engaged by councils, usually via their Community Arts or Community Development teams, to facilitate workshops, youth or community arts projects, or provide illustration such as promotional art, logo design &

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Cartoon Illustration – Bushfire Press (2000 – 2016)

One of my most enduring creative relationships was as in-house illustrator & creative consultant for music education publishers Bushfire Press.   Bushfire Press are a passionate team of ex-music teachers / musicians, who began writing & publishing Performing Arts resources for primary & secondary schools in the late 80s.  My work for them has included a

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Visual Scribe @ Relationships Australia (TAS) Conference, Hobart

In Oct 2015, Relationships Australia Tas employed me as a “visual mapper”, to illustrate in realtime the core themes and ideas that emerged from their annual 2-Day conference of 150 employees from around the state.  I stood at the back of the room, listening, observing, interpreting & translating into symbolic images & key words.  At

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Visual Scribe @ Calvary Palliative Care schools pilot program 2016

Following my experience as visual scribe at Calvary Hospital’s Death Café in 2015, one of the organisers Belinda Clarke approached me about being involved in an innovative pilot program she had devised in partnership with Calvary Hospital & two Hobart high schools.A group of Yr 12 girls who were considering a career in nursing, were

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SLUGBUNNY CAKE ANIMATIONS!

Slugbunny Takes The Cake Pt 1 – animation by Bradfield Dumpleton 2015 THE GIFT THAT KEPT ON GIVING: SLUGBUNNY CAKE ANIMATIONS 1-3 In March this year I had my 300th birthday, and while I usually don’t bother celebrating, my friend Heidi thought I should break tradition & made me a gorgeous chocolate mud-lathered-in-slabs-of-icing SLUGBUNNY CAKE!

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Marzipan (2007)

Acoustic instrumentals using European mandolin, octave mandola & acoustic guitar, and drawing on exotic flavours such as baroque, the Middle & Near East, rembetika and more. Throughout 2007 I was recovering from a nervous breakdown and in the depths of clinical depression. The music that forms this album helped me examine my profound grief &

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