Adam Garratt

Adam is a printmaker and installation artist who uses screen printing in the process of making sculptural work. Often printing with found and unusual materials, Adam uses the image making process to draw attention to the surface and form of the chosen canvas. This can help to draw on the structural, social and environmental values that the material holds, as well as the embodied labour within each print.

Most of Adam’s structural printed work are one off prints which explore scale and labour in print. Either by making the object in focus larger or by repeating a print to make the final work physically large or printing numerously across different surfaces. Adam frequently uses plastic worksite sheeting,
cardboard, reclaimed event banners or found corrugated polycarbonate.

With flashes of colour and photographic halftone being  Adam’s defining print style on pre-used translucent or white material, much of the time his labour intensive and technical prints sit quietly in the space with ephemeral qualities. This quality helps to reflect the subject image and materials background presence in the built environment in which they are found.