Let’s talk artists. Specifically artists that bring art to the people. Christ what a cheesy opener.
Adam Bridgeland
Adam is an artist that we’ve worked with for a few years, since we opened really. His work is affordable, easy going an playfull. Not only is he a fantastically talented artist, bringing artwork to more and more people, allowing it to be approachable but he has also been a personal help to me, being someone that I have leant on for advice on an embarrassing amount of occasions.
The biggest compliment I can give Adam is that his work is in my own private collection.
Adam is the Studio Manager at a print house in London called Jealous Inc. A prestigious print house that we work with quite often to source work >> faffless.art to see some work.
He has also just purchased a pub in Cambridgeshire with a business partner, which I for one cannot wait to visit
How do others describe Adam
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2006, Bridgland has used a diverse range of materials and working methods to pursue an incisive and often witty exploration of distinctively British sentiments, externalising the underlying sense of loss and nostalgia that permeates our memories. Vignettes of British back-packer’s holidays, old-fashioned bus-tours, and childhood seaside breaks that figure strongly in his visual repertoire are often tinged with this feeling of time having passed too quickly, our memories gradually fading. Twinned with this however, is an upbeat celebration of themes distilled from children’s colouring books, paint-by-numbers kits, old public transport posters and kitsch postcards, which he imbues with the kaleidoscopic richness of carefully chosen and thickly applied primary colours. These everyday, almost mundane subjects are treated with the importance and status of emblems; centred in each work and often encapsulated within related text or target-like circular borders that focus our gaze.
Taken from https://matthewreevescurator.wordpress.com/
Whether descriptive of change or constancy, Bridgland’s work keys into our desire to remember and relive, and plays upon our tendency to elevate our shared memories with the rose-tinted, wistful spectacles we don when thinking of the past, as well as the future. His depictions of identity and belonging, nostalgia and emotion give to his work a hugely personal aspect, and are influenced by a graphic and visual tradition that is quite specific to Britain. Yet his subtle combinations of image and related text play on everyone’s perceptions of shared occasions. Perhaps then it is the delicately précised power of the experiences he attempts to capture that make Bridgland’s work so accessible to all.
Adam is coming to Aberdeen
Adam will be doing a solo exhibition with us for the end of 2024, keep an eye on our pages to hear more about when this will be!
For more information on buying art, for investments and just for fun, check out my other blogpost here >> How to Buy artwork as an investment
