Adam Bridgland
B. 1979 Leicester, England
Described as ‘your favourite leisure time artist’, Adam embraces the everyday object finding inspiration from the colouring book image, travel guidebooks, and scout camping paraphernalia. Kitsch and humorous, yet equally poignant, Adam’s work rejoices in the mundane and is an investigation of the notion that holiday-making is just another ordinary everyday activity and that the holiday is essentially a fantasy that rarely lives up to our expectations.
Since graduating from his Masters in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art in 2006, Adam has lived and worked as an artist in London. He has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, Asia and America. The British Museum, the V&A, UBS and Debbie Harry are just some of the collectors of Adam’s work. In July 2009 was awarded his first major public art commission by Futures Community College in Southend and Commissions East. Adam is currently working on a major project for the Courtauld Institute of the Arts East Wing, which will open in January 2010.
Solo Exhibitions
2009 The Nowhere Tide And A Sad Song, Curwen and New Academy Gallery, Windmill Street, London.
2009 Now I Find Poetry In The Strangest Places, TAG Fine Arts, Project Space, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, N1.
2008 Every Town Can Be Full Of Interest If You Train Yourself To Find It, Babylon
Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Exhibitionism (The Art of Display), East Wing Nine, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London, WC2R
2009 Five To Follow, Pennwood House, Cassington, Oxford.
2009 It’s Just You And The Rest Of The Universe (two person show with Lucy Gough), Jealous , Park Road, Crouch End, London.
2009 Allotment, UCHL, Euston Road, London.
2009 Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, NewcastleUpon Tyne.
2009 Trading Meaning, three-man show with Gonka Gyatso and Tony Scott, 798, Beijing, China
2008 Hot Off The Press Retrospective, Curwen and New Academy Gallery, Windmill Street, London.
2008 Black Light, UCHL, Euston Road, London.
2007 Rites of Passage, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight.
2007 I’m Not A Tourist, I Live Here, Pennwood House, Cassington, Oxford.
2007 Sea Change, Mark Jason Gallery, London.
2006 Jetlag @ London Artists Book Fair 2006, ICA, The Mall, London, SW1.
2006 Generation, Final Degree Show, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London.
Selected Awards and Commissions
2009 University College Hospital London, Series of vinyl artworks created for the Neo-Natal Department, November 2009
2009 Futures Community College, Southend-on-Sea, Commissions East
2008 BabylonEngaged Bursary Artist 2008
2006 Davis Langdon RCA Award 2006
2003 Artists Access Award (AA2A), Norwich School of Art and Design 2003 – 2004.
2002 Noel Spencer Award for Printmaking.
Selected Publications/Reviews
· Platform for Art, Art on the Underground written by Alex Coles and Tasmin Dillon and published by Black Dog Publishing, 2008.
Work has also featured in various publications including The Times, The Metro, Time Out and A-N Magazine.
Work In Collections
The British Museum Prints and Drawings Collection, AEA Investors LLC, UBS, The V & A, Boeing Asia, HBOS, The De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea, The Royal College of Art, The BBC, Tony Blair’s office, Purdue University Indiana, Debbie Harry, Guy Chambers and various private collections across Asia, Europe and the United States.
Qualifications and Education
2004-2006 Royal College of Art, London: MA Fine Art Printmaking
1999-2002 Norwich School of Art and Design: BA Hons Fine Art Printmaking and Photomedia