DARLING THIS HOLIDAY WILL SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS: Adam Bridgland
CIRCLE are delighted to announce the latest solo exhibition 'Darling This Holiday...' by Adam Bridgland. Bright and bold, hand-painted on vintage Cornish postcards, these unique artworks celebrate the beauty and charm of the Cornish coast. A celebration of simple pleasures in true Bridgland style.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, 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.
All artworks are framed with free delivery on all artworks during the exhibition. For more information, give us a call on 07931611959 or get in touch via email on lucy@circlecontemporary.co.uk
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Adam BridglandDARLING THIS HOLIDAY WILL SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandWAKE UP NEXT TO PEOPLE THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandWE MIGHT BE HAPPIER ON OUR TRAVELS, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandI NEED THIS WILDERNESS FOR MY HEART TO BEAT , 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 20 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandEVERY MORNING I'VE GOT A NEW CHANCE, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard8 x 9.5 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandIF ONLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard7 x 9 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandI NEED THIS WILDERNESS FOR MY HEART TO BEAT, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 20 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandSHALL WE GO IN WITH THE TIDE, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandNOW I FIND POETRY IN THE STRANGEST PLACES, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard10 x 15 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandUPON EVERY WAVE OUR WELLBEING RIDES, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard10 x 14.5 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandSHE ALWAYS MADE ME SMILE, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard7 x 9 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandWAKE UP NEXT TO PEOPLE WHO MAKE YOU HAPPY, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 20 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandTOGETHER WE BUILT THIS WORLD ON OUR OWN, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 20 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandYOU AND ME. ME AND YOU, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard7 x 9 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandEVERY MORNING I'VE GOT A NEW CHANCE, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandWE COULD USE A MIRACLE NOW, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard10 x 14.5 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandWE WISH FOR NOTHING MORE THAN THIS, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandDARLING THIS HOLIDAY WILL SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS , 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandYOU ARE THE ONE THAT MATTERS MOST, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard9 x 14 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam BridglandYOU AND ME. ME AND YOU, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard7 x 9 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandYOU ARE SEA GLASS, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard7 x 9 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandBABY IF ONLY YOU KNEW, 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard7 x 9 cm (postcard)
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Adam BridglandUpon every wave our wellbeing rides , 2023Original painting with enamel painted text on vintage postcard15 x 11 cm (postcard)Sold
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Adam Bridgland, ALWAYS THOUGHTS AND DREAMS OF TOMORROW IN MIND (Patch), 2023