PROFILE
Brad Blaze is a world-renowned artist and entertainer. He has combined his talents with showmanship.
Brad Blaze may just be the fastest painter in the world. He has enthralled audiences across Australia, Asia, United Arab Emirates, and The United States performing at large gala dinners with guests including government ministers and celebrities.
At such events, he has painted four prime ministers and some of the world’s leading sportsmen ‘live’ at events including Tiger Woods, Sir Ian Botham, the late Richie Benaud, Shane Warne, Nico Rosberg, and movie stars Eric Bana and Chris Hemsworth.
Brad spent the beginnings of his career working his ‘way up the corporate ladder of an international finance company. On his way to and from work on the train, he honed his skills quickly sketching other passengers without them knowing and reading art books. He did this for ten years!
In 2001 Brad started working part-time as a caricature artist – working at events and having artwork published in magazines and newspapers. He quickly became highly skilled in caricature art, winning awards and being hired to travel throughout China and around Australia for special events. What set him apart from other artists was his talent for drawing and capturing the likeness of a subject extremely fast.
In 2006, after growing his caricature business into a full-time career with over thirty artists across Australia, he decided to launch his own show. It consisted of fast painting on stage, comedy, and magic. He appeared on the first-ever episode of Australia’s Got Talent (2007).
Brad started getting international exposure – he performed in front of an estimated 40,000 people at the Fiji Showcase and appeared on Asia television and many Australian television shows including Mornings with Kerry Anne, The Shak, Saturday Disney, The Circle, and Mornings.
Brad was awarded “Entertainer of the Year” at the Australian Event Awards.. He has taken his entertainment further by now performing approximately half of his shows in Asia and the United Arab Emirates. He has painted World Leaders, Sultans, Celebrities, and famous sports stars with a number of the aforementioned now collecting his art.
SPEAKING TOPICS
The Art of Transformation
Whether you are a small company or a large organization, you need to be in a state of transformation to continue to grow. Businesses are changing faster than ever and future growth prospects can mean becoming a ‘transformer’ business – a business ready to innovate according to clients’ needs or develop solutions in new markets.
In this entertaining presentation, Brad Blaze uses his artwork as a visual metaphor changing one artwork into another and provides you with the tools enabling you to seek out these opportunities.
Corporate Event Entertainment
Audiences will be in awe as paintings are made in just the length of ONE SONG (yes 3-4 minutes!). Whether he is painting an iconic person, a CEO or celebrity, or a product, he keeps the audience guessing as to who or what he is painting, only revealing the subject in the final breathtaking moments.
Brad utilizes large canvases and where possible, live-to-screen footage. With music pumping and fast action, this is a high-adrenaline entertainment and plays big on a stage.
What really sets Brad’s performance apart is the comedy. He tells his journey from working in finance to becoming an entertainer, some of the celebrities he has painted and some of the hilarious situations he has found himself onstage.
Brad has developed a number of special techniques which can reveal a corporate logo, slogan or even a face on the canvas. Such reveals include fire and glitter. It’s the perfect way to announce an award winner, thank a sponsor, leave a lasting message, or advertise a product.
Brad’s artwork serves as a lasting memory to the event. His artwork is hung in corporate offices, given to sponsors or they can be auctioned for a company charity – his artwork has now raised over three million dollars for charities around the world.
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