Approved: 26.07.2011

James Moore

Artist, Curator

Approved: 26.07.2011

My paintings explore a weakened state of the real within a visual culture of ever increasing simulacra. The persistent influence of Surrealism runs throughout, with much of my work using the aesthetics of the dream image and collage. The paintings are largely the product of virtual spaces and mediated imagery rather than any directly observed reality.

Works of fiction run deeply through all aspects of our culture, and many of the most iconic events and places that we all recognise and talk about are complete works of fiction. This situation forms the basis for a lot of my paintings. Using the conventions of Landscape, the work is an exploration of hypereality, representation & virtual imagery.

The pictures I work with are often of subjects that are either fake, don't really exist, or are impossible to see in the flesh, but that still have a collective reality amongst groups of people. Naturally, humour and pathos play their part, and the somewhat defunct medium of painting adds an off kilter gravitas to imagery in a world where images are generated by the tens of billions.

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      Artist Statement

      My paintings explore a weakened state of the real within a visual culture of ever increasing simulacra. The persistent influence of Surrealism runs throughout, with much of my work using the aesthetics of the dream image and collage. The paintings are largely the product of virtual spaces and mediated imagery rather than any directly observed reality.

      Works of fiction run deeply through all aspects of our culture, and many of the most iconic events and places that we all recognise and talk about are complete works of fiction. This situation forms the basis for a lot of my paintings. Using the conventions of Landscape, the work is an exploration of hypereality, representation & virtual imagery.

      The pictures I work with are often of subjects that are either fake, don't really exist, or are impossible to see in the flesh, but that still have a collective reality amongst groups of people. Naturally, humour and pathos play their part, and the somewhat defunct medium of painting adds an off kilter gravitas to imagery in a world where images are generated by the tens of billions.

      CV & Education

      2002 - MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
      2001 - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

      Solo Exhibitions
      2022 - Show 01, LLE Projects at Bay Art, Cardiff
      2019 - The Penultimate Truth, Elysium, Swansea
      2018 - Strange Eden, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan
      2014 - Counter Worlds, Futures Gallery, Cardiff
      2013 - Mount Analogue, St David's Hall, Cardiff
      2001 - Arc Arts, Arc Gallery Store, The Northern Quarter, Manchester

      Group Exhibitions
      2023 - Christmas Show, Bay Art, Cardiff
      2023 - Staged, Kingsgate, London
      2022 - Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod, Wales
      2022 - Walking in Two Worlds, Volcano Theatre, Swansea
      2022 - BEEP, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
      2022 - The Competition, Paper, Manchester
      2022 - Binary, Terrace, London
      2021 - Walking in Two Worlds, Oriel Carn & Oceans Apart
      2021 - Plymouth Contemporary, KARST, Plymouth
      2020 - View from the Edge, MADE, Cardiff
      2020 - Virtually Real, Norman Rea Gallery, York
      2019 - Wales Contemporary, Mall Galleries, London & Waterfront, Milford Haven
      2019 - Rumblestrip, g39, Cardiff
      2019 - The Jacksons Painting Prize, London
      2019 - Brex-kit, Swap Editions, Creekside Projects, London
      2019 - Paint Dada, Oriel Canfas, Cardiff
      2018 - RUG, Cardiff
      2018 - Abstract : Reality, Saatchi Gallery, London
      2018 - Into a Light, Saatchi Gallery, London
      2018 - BEEP 2018, Swansea
      2018 - Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff
      2018 - Night Swimming, Mission Gallery, Swansea
      2018 - Twice as Nice, PS Mirabel, Manchester
      2018 - Like the Lines of a Hand, C4RD, London
      2018 - Lost in Space, Paper Gallery & LLE, London Art Fair
      2017 - Like the Lines of a Hand, Paper Gallery, Manchester
      2017 - SWAP Editions, SET, London
      2017 - Island of the Real, Gossamer Fog, London
      2016 - The Cat Show, Paper Gallery, Manchester
      2016 - Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod, Wales
      2016 - The Human Condition, East Street Arts, Leeds
      2016 - Art Copenhagen, Denkmark
      2016 - Sound & Vision, Paper Gallery, Manchester
      2016 - Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare part III, Dean Clough, Halifax
      2016 - London Art Fair, Paper Gallery, London
      2015 - [dis]Corporate Bodies 11, The Unstitute
      2015 - artists@WAR, GalleryELL
      2015 - The Manchester Contemporary
      2015 - Art Copenhagen, Denkmark
      2015 - Generation Loss, Paper Gallery, Manchester
      2015 - KÖLNER LISTE, Cologne
      2015 - London Art Fair, Paper Gallery, London
      2014 - Exhange Rates, Paper Gallery, Sluice Art Fair New York
      2014 - Manchester Contemporary, Paper Gallery, Manchester
      2014 - 'Play!', Access Space, Sheffield
      2014 - Cites of Ash, g39, Cardiff
      2014 - Snow in Summer, Peek-a-Boo Gallery, Perth
      2014 - Barnaby Festival, Paper Gallery, Macclesfield
      2014 - Supermarket Independant Art Fair, Paper Gallery, Stockholm
      2013 - Alter//Shift//Control, Bermondsey Project, London
      2013 - Terraform, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City
      2013 - Sluice Art Fair (with Paper Gallery)
      2013 - Manchester Contemporary (with Paper Gallery)
      2013 - New Lights Art Prize, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate
      2013 - Trajector Art Fair, Hotel BLOOM!, Brussels
      2013 - A State of Un-Play, Atelier 35, Bucharest, Romania
      2013 - Waste Lands, Greenlease Gallery, Kansas City
      2012 - Digital Romantics, Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax
      2012 - Launch Exhibition, Paper, Manchester
      2012 - Manchester Contemporary, Paper, Manchester
      2012 - Outcasting: Fourth Wall, Various Venues, Cardiff
      2012 - Welsh Artist Of The Year, St David's Hall, Cardiff
      2012 - Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Vale of Glamorgan
      2011 - Sho Home, Sho Gallery, Cardiff
      2011 - Winter Show, Sho Gallery, Cardiff
      2009 - Wood, Canvas, Steel?, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
      2005 - Makeshift, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
      2005 - Sefton Open, Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
      2005 - Shelved, Octopus Gallery, Athens
      2004 - Le Petit Paysage, Liverpool Biennial Independents & Comme Ca Art Gallery, Liverpool & Manchester
      2003 - AAS Sci-Fi Double Bill, Various Venues, Birmingham
      2003 - XTC Ga Ga, Century Gallery, Cremer Street, London
      2002 - Group Exhibition, The Students Gallery, Wimbledon, London
      2002 - Red Mansion Art Prize, The London Institute Gallery, Millbank, London
      2001 - Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
      2000 - Departure Lounge, 1st Class Departure Lounge, Terminal 3, Manchester Airport

      Curated Projects
      2018-20 - Curator at RUG Gallery, Cardiff
      2012 - Create, Observe, Perform, Alkovi Gallery, Helsinki
      2011 - Virtually Real, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
      2010 - Virtually Real, Blyth Gallery, London
      2006 - Britishness, Cornerhouse, Manchester
      2006 - Making Love To My Ego, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
      2004 - Peep Show, Warsaw Gallery, Manchester
      2003 - Show Home, Timber Wharf, Castlefield, Manchester
      2002 - Red Mansion Art Prize, London

      Residencies
      2014 - Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
      2012 - On-line Residency, The Unstitute, London
      2011 - Residency, Cite des Arts, Paris