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.
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 has exhibited widely in the UK, America, Europe and Asia. The British Museum, the V&A, UBS, Boeing Asia and Debbie Harry are just some of the collectors of Adam's work. In July 2009 Adam was awarded his first major public art commission by Commissions East. He has since gone to complete a number of important projects, including work for YouTube, Heal's, Comme Des Garcons, Airnimal bikes, Cambridge United Football Club, Ace Hotel, Soho House, SmartLIFE, Jacuzzi and Eastern Pavilions.
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Adam Bridgland, Contents Of Your Excitement , 2021£ 80.00
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Adam Bridgland, I need this wilderness for my heart to beat , 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, I need this wilderness for my heart to beat, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, I need this wilderness for my heart to beat, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, AND THEN SUMMER COMES, 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, I GET SADS, 2024£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, DARLING THIS HOLIDAY WILL SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS , 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, I NEED THIS WILDERNESS FOR MY HEART TO BEAT, 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, WAKE UP NEXT TO PEOPLE THAT MAKE YOU FEEL HAPPY, 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, EVERY MORNING I'VE GOT A NEW CHANCE, 2023Sold
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Adam Bridgland, NOW I FIND POETRY IN THE STRANGEST PLACES, 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, SHE ALWAYS MADE ME SMILE, 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, TOGETHER WE BUILT THIS WORLD ON OUR OWN, 2023Sold
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Adam Bridgland, UPON EVERY WAVE OUR WELLBEING RIDES, 2023Sold
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Adam Bridgland, WAKE UP NEXT TO PEOPLE WHO MAKE YOU HAPPY, 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, WE COULD USE A MIRACLE NOW, 2023£ 150.00
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Adam Bridgland, WE WISH FOR NOTHING MORE THAN THIS, 2023Sold
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Adam Bridgland, YOU ARE THE ONE THAT MATTERS MOST, 2023Sold
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Adam Bridgland, I think i've lost touch with modern dog walkers, 2021£ 100.00
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Adam Bridgland, Love Is Translating Affections From Night Into Day, 2021£ 100.00
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Adam Bridgland, Nobody Ever Picks Me Flowers, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, She Was A Reader Of Detective Novels, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, Sunday We Need To In Those Boxes Under The Bed, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, Wake Up Next To People Who Make You Happy, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, We Could Use A Miracle Now, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, We Should Think About Getting A Dog, 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, You and I , 2021Sold
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Adam Bridgland, And Then Summer Comes, 2020£ 50.00
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Adam Bridgland, I NEED THIS WILDERNESS FOR MY HEART TO BEAT, 2020£ 125.00
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Adam Bridgland, I’m Not A Tourist, I Live Here, 2020£ 20.00
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Adam Bridgland, Making Eyes Across The Room (green), 2020£ 30.00
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Adam Bridgland, Making Eyes Across The Room (Orange), 2020£ 30.00
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Adam Bridgland, Making Eyes Across The Room (Red), 2020£ 30.00
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Adam Bridgland, Making Eyes Across The Room (Yellow), 2020£ 30.00