Exhibitions include ‘Diversity in Style’, ‘British art for the future’ at the Olyvia Fine Art gallery in London and is currently represented by the MAC Fine Gallery in Miami. After moving to London for a short period, he returned to his hometown in Norfolk where he now lives and works.
James’ work blurs the
boundaries between collage and painting, using preparatory paper
collages as reference for his larger paintings. He aims to reflect the
multilayered visual experience we all live in. Appropriating the very
images that have become implicit in our society, James’ work disturbs
our sense of reality and confuses our pre-conceived perception of
popular culture.
James’ work addresses one of
the most important issues of the last 50 years; over- consumption,
greed, inequality and life as a spectacle. James’ work screams at you,
there is no room for prevarication. It deals with the ubiquity of
advertising, sex selling everything, fast food and TV as the drug of a
nation. So perhaps you don’t like what you see, the bawdy reality, the
cheap thrill, the constant accumulation of sweet things, processed
things, plastic things. Unnatural things: but it doesn’t take away from
the fact it’s the truth. So on we go, round and round on our big fat
merry-go-round while James puts up the mirror to our pathetic world of
consumption.
