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James Eddy

Hayle
Sculptor and site-specific artist.
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   Graduate MA Fine Art fromArts University Plymouth in 2025.

  The main influence in my life has always been a love of nature and a concern for environmental issues. My experiences, as a countryside ranger and as an artist working in education, have greatly informed my art practice with an understanding of nature and human nature.

     I am also intrigued by the Japanese aesthetic theory of wabi-sabi, especially concerning the concepts of impermanence and change in nature and therefore in everyday human life. 

      One artist who I have always admired, is Costantin Brancusi. I try to create the same natural simplicity in my sculpture, capturing the essence of things in a form of visual poetry. A Japanese concept that conveys this for me is, ‘Mono-no-aware’, which in one way can be defined as a sense of ‘Ah-ness...’.

 

 

Lived Experience

      I graduated from a degree in Environmental Science in 1999 and worked as countryside Ranger for awhile. 
      As an artist especially in my site specific practice I use this environmental knowledge to inform my work. 
       I am based in my home Duchy of Cornwall and I indentify as neurodivergent. 

 

"Stairway to Hevva"

Sands of time & Ghosts of the temperate rainforest

Sands of time

New Growth Project

Copper Bait Ball commission

La Lune et terre sauvage

The Lightening Dancer

Sacred

'Enlightenment'

'Hayle estuary, marram'

St. Ives from Hayle Towans

'Godrevy, marram'

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