Jim Roseveare has exhibited internationally and in the UK including Istanbul Art Fair; Saatchi Gallery; Venice Bieannale; Kinokino, Sandnes (Norway); Museo MACO (Mexico); Farley Farm House; Transition Gallery, London. In 2021 he exhibited at Aspex Portsmouth (Emergency2021) ; Gallery 46, Whitechapel ; The AIR Open, Manchester and with The London Group in Waterloo. He is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. My art practice investigates the perception and making of landscape, focussing on the complex, ever-changing and entangled relationships between people, nature and culture. An arboricultural background of working with trees over 30 years grounds my practice in an understanding of material. Tree surgery is a form of sculpture with living entities that constantly change with cycles of growth, dormancy, decline and decay. This informs my approach to form, function, mutability and time in producing sculptures and site-specific installations.
Jim Roseveare has exhibited internationally and in the UK including Istanbul Art Fair; Saatchi Gallery; Venice Bieannale; Kinokino, Sandnes (Norway); Museo MACO (Mexico); Farley Farm House; Transition Gallery, London. In 2021 he exhibited at Aspex Portsmouth (Emergency2021) ; Gallery 46, Whitechapel ; The AIR Open, Manchester and with The London Group in Waterloo. He is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors. My art practice investigates the perception and making of landscape, focussing on the complex, ever-changing and entangled relationships between people, nature and culture. An arboricultural background of working with trees over 30 years grounds my practice in an understanding of material. Tree surgery is a form of sculpture with living entities that constantly change with cycles of growth, dormancy, decline and decay. This informs my approach to form, function, mutability and time in producing sculptures and site-specific installations.
From early nomadic life through agricultural and industrial revolution to collective utopias, people’s relationship with the environment has been multifarious, encompassing elements of fear, containment, productivity and exploitation, alongside guardianship, awe and ritual worship. In response, my work investigates how people respond to the contemporary and forthcoming social, political and environmental challenges of the Anthropocene.
Many of my sculptures incorporate concrete, organic materials and debris swept from surrounding ground surfaces; seeds embedded within may germinate and sprout new life as other materials decay. Precariously balanced blocks use kinaesthetic tension to unsettle or provoke curiosity, while modular and standardised building materials evoke the scale and contingency of the human body. I explore the boundaries of conventional fabrication, integrating decay and renewal; techniques that elicit a sense of reverse archeology and industrial fossilisation, evoking environmental change and deep time.
Jim Roseveare MRSS
6 Conqueror Rd, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex TN38 8DD
[email protected] jamesroseveare.wordpress.com +44 7939 340345
Selected Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors 2020
Selected solo exhibitions / residencies
Feb - Aug 2018 Tree Sense | Arts for Health Residency | with Boyd & Evans | Milton Keynes
Sept - Dec 2016 Stelae for Foreign Bodies | Artists Residency | Elements Gallery | commissioner: Rebecca Feiner | London E8
April - Oct 2015 Field | Farley Farm House Sculpture Garden | + Arts Award | commissioner: Anthony Penrose | Chiddingly, East Sussex
Sept 2011 Fish Stock | Coastal Currents Spotlight | The Stade Project Space, Hastings
2004 – 05 The Florence Trust Residency | The Florence Trust, London
Selected group exhibitions
2021
April Tracks and Traces | Virtual exhibition | AIR Contemporary Gallery | curator : Becky Wild | Altrincham, UK
June Coming up for Air | The London Group and Friends | curator: Clive Burton | Waterloo Festival, London
July Can we ever know the meaning of these objects | Gallery 46 | curators: Kevin Quigley, Sarah Sparkes | London E1 2AJ
Aug - Oct EMERGENCY 2021 | ASPEX Gallery | curator: Vickie Fear | The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1 3BF
Aug - Sept AIR Open | AIR Contemporary Gallery | Altrincham, WA14 1LE
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2020
March Zuzushii Art Laboratory | curators: Tim Can and Fumico Azuma | Hastings TN34 IJY
May - Dec Hastings Open 2020 | Hastings Museum, East Sussex
May Hulabhaig Uig Open 2020 | Re-imagined Online | Hulabhaig Gallery, Isle of Lewis
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2019
July Liminality4 | Gallery46 | with Jake Chapman + | curators: Sean McLusky & Bjorn Hatleskog | London E1 2AJ
June Come Hell or High Water | The London Group + | curators: Almuth Tebbenhoff, Cadi Froehlich | Waterloo Festival, London
May - Aug Miniscule Venice | curator: Vanya Balogh | 58th La Biennale Di Venezia. Fondamenta Sant’Anna 996 Castello. Venice, 30122
Feb - May Empire II After Extinction | Museo MACO | Oaxaca, Mexico
Feb Four legs good, two legs bad | The Year of the Pig | curator: Rebecca Feiner | Q Park, Leicester Sq, London
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2018
Oct Protocol (Frieze Week) | Q Park, Cavendish Square, London W1
June Nothing Endures but Change | The London Group and Friends | curator: Susan Haire | Waterloo Festival, London
April - Sept Sweep-Landskip | with Derek Jarman and Peter Joseph | curator: Roberto Ekholm (ECKO) | Kinokino, Sandnes, Norway
Feb Embracing the Underdog | curator Susan Haire, President of The London Group | Q Park, Chinatown, London W1
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2008 - 2017
April 2017 Speedway | with Luci Eyers and Andrew Kotting | Transition Gallery, London E8
May 2017 to Aug 2019
Empire II | Film shorts | Curator Vanya Balogh | 57th Biennale di Venezia, Italy (Touring - Tallin, Estonia; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Zagreb, Croatia; Oaxaca, Mexico)
2015 Sotto Vocci | Italian artists exchange | Hastings, East Sussex
Chinese Open | Year of the Sheep | Q Park, Chinatown, London W1
2014 Le Voci Rotrovate | Artists Residency | Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy
Marvellous Mix Ups | with Cedric Christie and Vanya Balogh + | Fulham, London
We are Oak Passage | with Andrew Kotting and Greig Burgoyne | Stour Valley Arts,
2013 Strarta Art Fair | Saatchi Gallery, London SW3
Twelve by Six | De La Warr Pop Up Gallery, Bexhill
2012 Artbeat Festival | Cairo, Alexandria, El Mansoura, Egypt
2011 Art in Romney Marsh | Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Romney Marsh
2010 From A to B | Anglo-French exhibition | Dover
East Sussex Open | The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2009 International Art Symposium (selected artist) | Patras, Greece
Shot by the Sea | with Ben Rivers and Andrew Kotting | Claremont, Hastings
2008 The 18th Istanbul Art Fair | Tuyap, Istanbul, Turkey
Education
1995 – 98 London College of Communication | BA. First Class Hons. Photography
1982 – 85 Askham Bryan College, York | Nat.Dip.Arboriculture. Royal Forestry Certificate