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Jamie Limond

Ipswich
An exploration of my ontology concerning secular pilgrimages, both onshore and at sea, is conducted through various mediums, including installation, photography, print, video, and sculpture.

My art is deeply influenced by a heightened awareness of mortality, stemming from a profound diagnosis. I delve into the human condition at its fringes, exploring brokenness and our responses to existence and temporality. Beyond this, my interest in philosophy guides me in my intent to create authentic art. Currently, I am a postgraduate researcher pursuing a doctorate in Fine Art.

My practice is informed with an engineer’s grasp of materials and a keen appreciation for art history. I embrace a multidisciplinary approach without a specific preference for any one medium. This philosophy led to the recognition of the DigiTech commission and the establishment of JL Engineering Art in 2020.

My DfA research has focused on passaging through one’s space, through secular pilgrimages. This has resulted in me developing my sailing skills, becoming an endorsed skipper, which I hope will further my understanding of the concept of the passage and waterborne pilgrimages. This resulted in the creation of JL Sailing Art, a project that looks to me skippering  passages, with like minded people on voyages around coasts and across seas - art residencies aboard. In 2023, I planned and completed the first of these, an anti-clockwise circumnavigation around the uk and Ireland.

My influences include Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski, and Anya Gallaccio.

Born in 1974, I live and work in Suffolk, England.

 

Education

  • HND Electrical & Electronic Enigneering - Suffolk College (1998)
  • MSc Project Management - Aberdeen University (2001)
  • BA (Hons) Fine Art - University of Suffolk (2017)
  • MA Fine Art - University of Suffolk (2019)
  • Commenced DFA - University of East London (2020)

 

Solo Exhibitions

  • W&B Gallery, Sudbury (Jun-Jul 2014)

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Showcase 24, UEL, London (21st June - 23rd June 2024).
  • Wasteless 2, Way Out East Gallery, London (24th April 2024).
  • Reflection, Artists in Residence, HAHC, Harwich (3rd Feb - 30th March 2024).
  • Exploring the Sublime, Harwich Festival of the Arts (22nd June – 24th July 2022)
  • To Begin at the Beginning, The Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh (18th Sept – 22nd Sept 2020)
  • Harwich Shorts, Harwich Festival of the Arts, online (25th June – 31st July 2020).
  • Impact, Chiaya Art Award, online (15 Jun to 30 Sept 2020).
  • Finé Art, Foyer, UoS, Ipswich (Aug 2019).
  • Alive in the Universe, MaYou Live in Interesting Times. Associazione Eventi d’arte e d’architettura, 58th Venice Beinnalé (May-Jun 2019) [short film].
  • tbc, Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich (Apr 2019).
  • Alive in the Universe, The Lookout, Aldeburgh (20th Aug 2018).
  • Fate (tbc), Installation Space, UoS, Ipswich (Jun 2017)
  • Inhumanity Scratched-out, Fine Art / English Collaboration, UoS (Jun 2017)
  • Inhumanity Series Exhibition, School of Art & Design Gallery, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan (31 May 2017)
  • Inhumanity Series Exhibition, Art-Expo, Shanidar Gallery, Erbil, Iraq (May 2017)
  • Blueshift Paradigm (auction), Waterfront Building, Ipswich (Mar 2017)
  • Scarred FOR Life Exhibition, Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich (Apr 2016)
  • Time Installation, Freudian Sheep Gallery, Ipswich (Feb 2016)
  • The Summer Exhibition, Prettys Solicitors (Jul-Jan 2015)
  • Injustice Exhibition, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London (Sept 2014)
  • Into the Sun Exhibition, Kersey’s (May 2014)
  • British Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Crypt Gallery, London (2014)
  • Various Exhibitions, Freudian Sheep Gallery, Ipswich (2016-2014)
  • Back to Back to Biennale, Associazione Eventi d’arte e d’architettura, Venice (2013)
  • Trafalgar Exhibition, Prettys Solicitors, Ipswich (2013)
  • Gainsborough Print Exhibition, Edmunds Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds (2013)
  • Tracing Britten Exhibition, The Cinema Gallery, Aldeburgh (2013)
  • Clockmakers Exhibition, Sotheby’s Gallery, London (2013)
  • Twenty-thirteen Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Ipswich (2013)
  • Langlands & Bell Exhibition, Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich (2011)

 

Competitions

  • Attwells Solicitors Fine Art Competition [Shortlisted] 2016
  • Just Art National Competition [Runner Up] 2014
  • National Open Arts Competition [Shortlisted] 2014
  • Picturing Time Competition [Shortlisted] 2013

 

Commissions and public works

  • Awarded DigiTech / BT commission to design a sculpture for Adastral Park (Dec 2020 - April 2021)
  • Unmarked pages on display at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospice, Ipswich (2015)
  • Miracle of the Roses on display at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospice, Ipswich (2015)
  • The unnamed tree* on display at the University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich (2012)

 

Published articles and features

  • HMS article 16-2-24
  • Sailing residency and pilgrimage on SY Gaudeo a circumnavigation of the UK and Ireland from Woodbridge, Suffolk (1st April - 1st September 2023)
  • Sailing residency and pilgrimage on SY Airlie from Woolverstone, Suffolk to St. Katherine's Dockyard, London (via Margate) and home (20th - 23rd August 2020)
  • Sailing residency and pilgrimage on SY Carousel from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain to Ramsholt, Suffolk (5th - 9th June 2018)
  • ‘Record-breaking Fine Art Auction’ East Anglian Daily Times – April 3, 2017
  • ‘…artwork at firm’ East Anglian Daily Times – Sept 4, 2015
  • ‘Inspiring art…’ East Anglian Daily Times – June 23, 2014
  • ‘New talent’ Exposure Magazine, UCS – May 8, 2013
  • Roy Lichtenstein: A retrospective, Tate Modern Feb-Jun 2013
  • SNIP: Snape’s SNAP’s little brother June 2013

 

The unnamend tree was a collaboration with J Butcher and P Hillier

 

Research Portfolio

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