Data Missing 2

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A ship held in a frozen seascape is interrupted by black geometric voids and an “80%” data marker, creating a tension between historical image and digital absence. Within The Black Atlantic, the work reflects on the incompleteness of colonial archives and the ways Black lives have often been reduced to fragments, statistics, or missing records. The obscured forms suggest information withheld, erased, or never preserved, while the vessel evokes forced movement, migration, labour, and survival across the Atlantic. The work asks what happens when history is reconstructed from partial evidence, and how technology might expose, rather than conceal, the uncertainties embedded within the archive.

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W.H's Shoes

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'W.H.’s shoes' become intimate evidence of a life otherwise largely absent from the historical record. Marked with his initials, they function as both personal belongings and archival fragments, objects that survived when biography did not. Within The Black Atlantic, the shoes evoke movement, labour, migration, and the physical realities of maritime life, while also underscoring the violence of historical erasure. Their worn material presence contrasts with the uncertainty surrounding W.H.’s identity, transforming an ordinary object into a quiet memorial. The work asks how much can be recovered from what remains, and how objects might carry memory when names, stories, and images have been lost.

Jamie Bradbury is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Newfoundland and Labrador. Working across painting, sculpture, moving image, installation, textiles, and emerging technologies, his practice examines memory, representation, ecology, and the systems through which histories are preserved or erased. His recent projects include The Black Atlantic, exploring Black maritime histories and archival absence; Traces of Us, focused on ecological adaptation; and Pleasure Systems, which considers attention, surveillance, and technological mediation. Bradbury studied at OCAD University and Central Saint Martins, and has exhibited internationally, including at CICA Museum, South Korea, and Michigan State University Museum.