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Created exclusively for David Parr House on the occasion of the pop-up Open Studio during July 2024.
This summer, for David Parr House, Adam looked at the words within the house. Parr painted several short texts onto the walls of his home. They are found in the drawing room and then in the small bedroom upstairs.
The sources vary in length and include direct quote from As You Like It, sections of popular verse of the time, and seemingly spiritual instructions, along with his own mantra of ‘If you do anything, do it well’ which heavily references verse from Ecclesiastes 9.
For the David Parr House print and associated garden installation, Adam looked at a phrase found in a hymn from 1850 by Frederic Faber “There’s a wideness in God’s mercy” which was included in Faber’s Oratory Hymns (1854), and in doing so celebrates the verse that precedes that applied to the drawing room wall, giving space and life to the extended words of the house.
There is grace enough for thousands
Of new worlds as great as this;
There is room for fresh creations
In that upper home of bliss.
One colour screenprint in french blue glitter ink. A3 unmounted.
Reads:
THERE IS ROOM FOR FRESH CREATIONS
All prints are signed by the artist and marked A/P.
Adam Bridgland’s work is grounded in creating a sense of place. Using words to broker the relationship between person, human experience, and place.
The places in question are literal at times with the work installed in locations spanning busy urban sites such as Islington, to the remote wildness of the beach at Lowestoft. Places are also more nostalgic, abstract and distant as featured on found, vintage postcards.
Adam lives near Cambridge where he has a studio, he also works in London and has shown work widely in the UK and internationally.
