b. Peak District, England 1988
Based in Barcelona, Spain
Awarded BA(Hons) Design, The Glasgow School of Art, 2010
Visiting lecturer at BSA
James is an interdisciplinary artist based in Barcelona, working with light, perception, and the rhythms of the natural world. His work lingers in the space between presence and absence, between what is seen and what is felt. Light, shifting and intangible, becomes both subject and material. It reveals the quiet interplay between time, environment, and human experience.
Through physical and digital interventions, he creates moments that draw attention to the ways in which modern life distances us from the landscapes we inhabit. His work offers a space to pause and notice, an opportunity to reconnect, however briefly.
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