ABOUT
Adam Hedley’s recent works explore his fascination with the space between nature and abstraction. Working with traces of an image, the recognition of physical forms and the idea of pushing and pulling between one place and time and another, he is interested in reality, fragments from history, reimagined spaces and the crossovers between these. Gradually refining a personal palette and vocabulary of images derived from observations of the natural world and an archive of collected images, Hedley works between outdoor and indoor environments on large and small formats. He is sensitive to how place, circumstance and daily life can directly impact the production of a work, and is engaged in the very intimate, and physical relationships that the varying scales that he works in encourage. For Hedley, the activity of painting needs to feel illuminating. Finding a balance between intention and accident, his works aim to offer entry points into both direct and non-direct interactive spaces and representations, and invite the viewer to come up close and explore their layered and introspective surfaces
Adam Hedley lives and works in Bristol UK. He gained a BA (Hons) Fine Art at Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) in 2008. He has exhibited throughout the UK with group exhibitions at Sid Motion Gallery, Arcade Fine Arts, Transition Gallery, Terrace Gallery, Kingsgate Project Space, Trade Gallery and the Gallery at Norwich University of The Arts (NUCA). Between 2012-15 Adam worked alongside Norwich based curator Alice Lee, in an intercity collaborative project entitled ‘Parallel Point’, which aimed to address the issues of art display and related events. Over the duration, Adam showed work at The Birdcage, Norwich, Power Lunches in Dalston, and several other alternative project spaces. In 2015 he was resident artist at Kentish Town Health Centre, London, where he held creative workshops for visitors, and investigated art making within a clinical setting. Works made during the residency were displayed in his solo exhibition ‘In The Waiting Room’, at The Free Space Project. With a commitment to developing inclusive and collaborative approaches to art making, and audience and community engagement, Adam Co-founded Caraboo Projects in Bristol in 2018. The organization strives to bring together artists, curators and local members of the community, for experimentation, and the development of self-organized and cross disciplinary art exhibitions and events in Bristol.
