James has spent the last 25 years working in and around the arts with the majority of that time teaching and lecturing Fine Art and Photography; he is currently photography lead for the foundation course at Arts University Bournemouth, and a visiting tutor on the MA in Fine Art.
James has a particular interest in photography within contemporary art, his approach to practice originates in fine art, whilst exploring the potential of digital photography. He is fascinated by the points at which traditionally distinct artistic genres overlap and the opportunities afforded by these spaces. He is currently just over halfway through a PhD in Fine Art (by practice) at Oxford Brookes University. The working title for his research is ‘Transitory Place(s): Digital Representations of the Landscape’ and is based around an investigation of whether the representation of temporality might lead to a portrayal of the landscape which reflects our relationship with the land we inhabit and move through. His more recent practice has been focussed towards exploring the potential of video and space between still and moving image.
recent exhibitions & conferences
Light Space Place
(joint)
August 2023
Cornerstone Arts, Didcot
The working title for James’ artistic research is ‘Temporal Place(s): Digital Representations of the Landscape’ and is based around an investigation of whether the representation of temporality might lead to a portrayal of the landscape which reflects our contemporary relationship with the land we inhabit and move through.
An underlying idea behind the multi-layered still and moving pieces was an attempt to visually ‘encapsulate’ an entire journey in a single image, and even possibly to communicate multiple journeys simultaneously. This body of work is (in part) also concerned with how art (and especially contemporary photography) depicts the contemporary ‘landscape’
Open 22
(group)
December 2022
Spudworks, Sway
This moving image piece explores the space between moving and still photography. Multiple images working as one, blending together individual moments in time and space to depict the New Forest
AMPS: Representing Pasts – Visioning Futures
Temporal Place(s): Transitory Representations of the Landscape
(conference)
December 2022
Queen’s University, Belfast
This presentation allows me the opportunity to present the progress to date of my investigation into the depiction of temporality and repetition in place making and the visual representation of place and a contemporary landscape
ICAE 2022 'A Right to Roam'
(conference)
June 2022
M-Shed, Bristol
I have always somewhat struggled with more traditional, historical representations of ‘landscape’ and in part wanted this practice-based research to explore alternative ways that the land around us could be depicted. The way we represent the land we inhabit has continually evolved, illustrating our changing relationship with the world in which we live and the various ways in which we live in that world
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Temporal Place(s)
(solo)
Jan 2022
Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University
A solo show to accompany my Mphil/PhD transfer application
'Ways of Knowing', MA (education) Show
(group)
Summer 2019
The Glasgow Room, Harcourt Hill Campus Oxford Brookes University
Phenomena
(solo)
July 2018
Spud Works (formally Artsway), Sway
www.jameselliottart.co.uk/phenomena
Echo
(group)
2017
The Story Museum, Oxford
the1000thmonkey.wixsite.com/echo/james