Approved: 30.08.2016

James Bloomfield

Artist

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Approved: 30.08.2016

My practise is rooted in exploring the media delivery of information that the digital age allows and testing the fluidity of material to exploit the inherent resonance of objects. My source material is war, propaganda, capitalism, consumerism and social conditioning. Information absorbed is filtered through classical elements and then carefully constructed using a museological language to present a

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    Artist Statement

    My practise is rooted in exploring the media delivery of information that the digital age allows and testing the fluidity of material to exploit the inherent resonance of objects. My source material is war, propaganda, capitalism, consumerism and social conditioning. Information absorbed is filtered through classical elements and then carefully constructed using a museological language to present a new entity.

    I am currently exploring the process of slip casting objects and then pit-firing them - "I’m interested in the object as artefact and the presentation of objects. The objects I am interested in have either a personal connection, or are related to the everyday; or are socially or politically charged". Recent ideas have been
    fuelled by reading George Ritzers "The McDonaldisation of Society" and Edmund De Waal's "The White Road".
     

    CV & Education

    Information

    Upcoming Exhibitions

     

    Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Ordsall Hall -  July 2017

    Working Class Movement Library 2017

     

    Selected Solo exhibitions

    2015 OPEN HOUSE Federation House 26.3.2015

    2014 Federation House - Fire and Forget - 13.03.2014

    2011 Manchester MRI "A Letter to Lowry"

    2008 Salford Royal Hospital "Its Our Salford"

    2008 Stockport Art Gallery M12-11

    2005 Farmillio Fiumano, London


    Funding and Awards


    2016/17 Arts Council Grants for the Arts

    2014/15 Arts Council Grants for the Arts

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    Selected  Exhibitions
     

    2016 -Aesthetica Art Prize  - York St Marys

    2015 - ONPHOTOcopy - 44AD - Fringe Arts Bath

    2015 - Art Vend - Oriel Wrecsam - Wrecsam

    2015 - Dreaming of New York - Horsefall, Manchester

    2015 Broken Grey Wires 'Make Windows Where There Are Walls' - Notting Hill Art Club, London

    2013 Landfillart - Pennsylvania, USA

    2012 John Moores Painting Prize 2012 Walker Art Gallery Liverpool

    2010 The Killing Jar AWOL Studios Manchester

    2009 Hope Mill Open Studios - Manchester

    2004 Salford Museum and Art Gallery

     

    Competitions

    2016  Aesthetica Art Art Prize - Longlisted exhibitor 

    2012 John Moores Painting Prize 2012

    2008 BP Portrait Award - 2nd Stage Entry

    2006 John Moores Exhibition Stage 2 Entry 2006

    2006 The Sefton Open Atkinson Gallery Southport

     

    Residencies /Employment
     

    Artist in Residence Salford Museum & Art Gallery 2016 - 2017


    Artist in Residence LIME art April 2011 - 2014


    Art Mentor Pool Arts - 2009 - 2016
     

    Commissions

    2015 Art Vend - Oriel Wrecsam
     

    2013 Rochdale Infirmary - Lime Arts

    2010 Gorton Visual Arts  - Beyer Peacock

    Press/Publications

    Future Now - Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2016  ISBN

    Art Monthly 386 May 2015 OPEN HOUSE - Eleanor Clayton

    Corridor 8 online edition 2014 link

    Sunday Telegraph 2013

    Chasing your Tale 2012 link

    Salford Advertiser 2008

    City Life Manchester 2004
     

    City Life Manchester 2003

    Manchester Evening News 2003

    Education

    1998 - 2000

    City College Manchester        HNC Sound Recording

    1996 - 1998
    Manchester Metropolitan        Interactive & Broadcast 
    University                                Media (2 years)

    1995 - 1996
    Manchester Metropolitan        Art Foundation Course
    University

    1989 -1995
    Bacup and Rawtenstall          5 A levels, 9 GCSE’s
    Grammar School