Technicolour screenprinting with Adam Bridgland

Описание: The colourful and often witty work of artist and printmaker Adam Bridgland takes inspiration from a range of familiar design styles, motifs and sentiments found in British vintage travel posters, postcards, advertising and colouring books. Key to his work is the interplay between text and image.

Bridgland's latest screenprint takes the text, 'Better it is to get wisdom than gold', that sat above the original entrance to the V&A, and places it over a multicoloured rainbow. It was commissioned as a limited-edition print by the V&A.

We joined Bridgland at Jealous Print Studio in London's Shoreditch to find out more about his inspiration, discover what it is that he loves about screenprint and watch as he produces the print for the V&A.

Chapters:
00:00 Meet artist and printmaker, Adam Bridgland
00:40 Print is an important part of our modern lives
01:23 Making the acetates using acrylic paint and Indian ink
02:33 Cleaning the screen in preparation for the new image (ASMR)
02:57 Adding the photographic emulsion to 'sensitise' the screen
03:47 Exposing the screen
04:11 Cleaning the screen to reveal the image
04:55 Testing paint colours
06:01 Laying down the first colour
06:25 The next colour goes on - lots of squeegee action!
07:27 Adam talks about his love of screenprint
07:40 The text layer goes on - nearly finished...
08:15 The final reveal!

Adam Bridgland's print 'Better it is to get wisdom than gold' will be available to purchase in the V&A shop from 27 March 2025: https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/prints/art...

V&A and Thames & Hudson publication 'Screenprints: A History' will also be available to purchase on 27 March 2025: https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/books

Discover more of our Print Collection: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/print