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The Search for Shallow Sky
Video stills on photographic paper, 2011
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HUM
Collaborative project with Solina Hi-Fi, produced by Volume in association with Black Rainbow Records.
'Bow Score' , 9m drawing on graph paper framed in four parts. Three sound works, three master copy recordings, three turntables, concrete speakers. 2011, dimensions variable
Installation shots, Cartel Gallery, London
Bow Score + Solina Hi-Fi
Coloured ink on inkjet print, 2011
1m x 9m
Bow Score
Graphite on graph paper, 2011
Bow Study
100 x 100 cm
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Dogtown Dreams in Dystopia
Set of 12 drawings developed with the assistance of Philadelphia street skater Sean McCannon
Graphite on cartridge paper, 2011
29.7 x 42 cm each
Avifauna (Mile End to Lea Valley, Winter)
Developed with the assistance of Martin Shepherd, writer for The London Bird Report and regular contributor to London Bird Club and East London Birders' Forum
Set of 31 drawings, graphite on cartridge paper, 2011
42 x 59.4 cm each
Currents
Video loops, 2010 - 2011
Bow Score (Study 6)
Screenprint on paper 59.4 x 42 cm
Edition of 50
3 records (A + AA sides) Cover artwork and inserts,180g 12" black vinyl
Edition of 100
18/01/12 Vault Art video interview
www.14cstudio.com
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09/09/11 Volume at Vault Art Glasgow
The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow. G1 5HZ
www.volumeprojects.com
12/08/11 Quadraphonic, Fold Gallery, London
32 Fortescue Avenue, London. E8 3QB
www.foldgallery.com
01/07/11 Cenral Station artist of the month
www.thisiscentralstation.com
17/06/11 Bow Arts Open
Bow Road Studios, 181-183 Bow Road, London. E3 2SJ
www.bowarts.org
25/03/11 HUM, Cartel Gallery
The Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, London. SE14 6LG
www.theoldpolicestation.org
www.blackrainbowrecordings.com
James Thomas
Born 1979 Wales, lives and works London
Education:
2004 MA Fine Art, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London
2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Howard Gardens College of Art & Design, UWIC
Awards:
2003 Full AHRC scholorship
2003 DRAW Residency, Caylus, France
Residency:
2009 En Residencia, La Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijon, Spain. Melville Mitchell collaboration, curated and
developed by Marc Rees, RIPE Productions and Dr. Benedict Anderson
2003 DRAW International, Caylus, France. Residency and solo exhibition developed with Dr. John McNorton
Recent:
2011 Volume at Vault Art Glasgow, Glasgow
Quadraphonic, Fold Gallery, London
Hum, Cartel Gallery, London
Beyond Necessity, Performance [Space], London
Illuminations & Bad Faith, Bondi Pavillion Gallery, Bondi Beach, Australia
Propeller Island at Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
Perform Or Else, Grand Union Gallery, Birmingham
2010 The Dallas Steak House, La Laboral, Gijon, Spain
X-Ray at Frieze Art Fair, London
Plus Art, Britannia House, London
2009 En Residencia Launch, Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff
En Residencia, La Laboral, Gijon, Spain
Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey Square, London
Auxesis, tactileBosch, Cardiff
Neon & Signmakers present, London
Next:
2012 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Glasgow
Contact:
jmt.post_gmail.com
caroline_volumeprojects.com
Volume press, Vault Art Glasgow (2011)
James' drawings are mappings and responses that attempt to navigate the saturated atmospheres, memories and transitions of urban environments. The drawings can be viewed as a dynamic series of codings or compositional frameworks that propose a fictionalised or imagined narrative of the space.
Hum press, Hum, Cartel Gallery, London (2011)
Hum is a spatial and sonic inquiry into the complex acoustic ecology of the Bow Flyover in East London. The result of an ongoing collaboration, the exhibition is formed of a series of new drawings by James Thomas and a sonic environment created by Solina Hi-Fi.
Hum investigates the cartographic possibilities of drawing and sound to reveal the dense layering of actions, reactions, movements and counter-movements of the city infrastructure. Through a process of translation and exchange, the art works each attempt to construct a spatial awareness of the area around the overpass, extending beyond certain material boundaries to reveal meeting points and tensions where trajectories emanate. Using intuitive as well as scientific and mathematical means, the artists dissect and replay this dynamic convergence within the gallery space.
This particular collaboration between the artists is conceived of as a process of inquiry, or as Robert Irwin describes as a dialogue of immanence where certain questions become demanding and potentially unanswerable at a certain point in time, but that each of them have involved themselves in the same set of questions at the same time albeit through individual approaches to method and thought.
