James Reynolds
London
Painter, concerned with objects that are often domestic and relate to personal, historical narratives driven by rules and consequences.
My practice is primarily focussed on drawing and painting. Addionally, I work through a range of processes and media including digital, printmaking, installation and animation. Currently my work is concerned with specific memories, stories, words, instances, objects, things or sentiments that frame a deeply personal and historical narrative. Set within traditional and often dogmatic routine-based methods of working, it fulfils a desire to follow rules and strict practices that add to the metaphorical nature of the work.
Employment
Current - Academic Support Lecturer, University of the Arts London
Education
2016 – MFA Fine Art, University of the Arts London (Wimbledon College of Art)
2001 – PGCE (Post-16) Institute of Education, London
1997 – BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University
1996 – Fine Art Painting, Complutense University of Madrid
1994 – Foundation Diploma Art & Design, Lincoln College of Art & Design
Selected Exhibitions:
1997 – Northern Graduates, Curwen Gallery, London
1998 – Artescape Artists-in-Residence exhibition, Greestone Gallery, De Montfort University, Lincoln.
1998 – Friends School summer exhibition group show, Friends School, Saffron Walden
1998 – Trintiy Arts Centre, Gainsborough
2001 – Art on the Map, Lincolnshire open studios group exhibition
2002 – Art on the Map, Lincolnshire open studios group exhibition
2011 – Free Painters & Sculptors group show winter exhibition, La Galleria, London
2012 – Free Painters & Sculptors group show winter exhibition, Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London
2012 – Casa del Artes Gallery, Chiswick
2013 – ‘Red Revised’, Cultivate gallery, Vyner Street, London
2013 – Free Painters and Sculptors, ‘Works on Paper’ Espacio Gallery, London
2014 – ‘Artcrasher’ at SOMArts, San Francisco
2014 – Cass Business School, London
2014 – Riverside Studios Gallery, Hammersmith
2014 – FPS Summer Show, Menier Gallery, London
2014 – FPS Winter Open Show, Menier Gallery, London
2014 – 20/20, Chelsea College of Art, London
2015 – Twitterartexhibit, Moss, Norway
2015 – Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London
2015 – Art Fair East, Norwich
2015 – ‘Shift’, Menier Gallery, London
2015 – FPS Members Summer Show, Menier Gallery, London
2015 – Gallery in the Lanes, Norwich
2015 – Buy Art Fair, Manchester
2015 – ‘Index’, The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, London
2015 – Thinking Through Drawing Symposium exhibition, ‘We All Draw @ UAL’, The Bargehouse, London
2016 – ‘I Knew Who I was’, Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town Health Centre
2016 – Buy Art Fair, Manchester
2016 – Graduate Art Prize, Artiq & Herbert Freeman Hills, London
2016 – FPS Members Winter Show, Menier Gallery, London
2017 - 'A Free Moment', Oxo Tower Gallery, London
2017 - Painting Open, No Format Gallery, London
2018 - Domestik Relik, 5th Base Gallery, London
2018 - Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, London
2018 - Wimbledon Shots, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2018 – Nunhead Arts Trail
2018 – Sprout Arts, London
2018 – Painting Open, No Format Gallery & Deptford Does Art, Deptford
2018 – Royal West of England Annual Open Exhibition
2018 – The London Ultra, Bargehouse, London
2019 – Drawing Open Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, Deptford
2019 – Painting Open, No Format Gallery & Deptford Does Art, Deptford
2021 – Painting Open, No Format Gallery & Deptford Does Art, Deptford
2021 – Resilience, Smart Artist Hub
2022 – The View From Nowhere, The Canning Gallery, London
2022 – Painting Open, No Format Gallery & Deptford Does Art, Deptford
Exhibition Organisation/Curation
June 2015 – ‘Shift’, Menier Gallery, London
Publications/Press
1997 – Independent on Sunday
2001 – The Guardian Guide
2014 – The State of Art – Series 1, ‘Landscape and Portrait’. Bare Hill Publishing
2014 – The Palatte Pages – Artist Interview
2015 – Buy Art Fair (Manchester) exhibition Catalogue
Groups/Galleries
2011 – Accepted as member of FPS Group (Free Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers)
2013 – SiOTT Gallery
Residencies
1997 – Artist-in-Residence at Artescape Trust, Lincolnshire, 12 months
Future Projects/collaborations
2019 - 'Object_ive' - group show, venue tbc
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