JAMES READER

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My work revisits modernist issues of colour and form but equally pop concerns of market, commercial context and mass productivity. This juxtaposition of painterly concerns results in an eclectic mixture of form and content. The paintings exist in a location between the physical and the metaphysical. They represent every aspect of my personality, not just human reason and intellect but also emotions, instincts, feelings and imagination: co-existing with and for each other. I work with immediacy and honesty attempting paintings that are not pretty, but rousing, and oddly arresting. Through a fine balance of offbeat formal juxtapositions I seduce the viewer into pondering the fundamental process and semiotics of painting.

Education

Wimbledon College of Art Sept 2004 – Jul 2007
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting (2:1)
Dissertation; The Hyperreal and Heterotopias: Disneyland and other spaces

Central St Martins College of Art and Design
(HE) Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art and Design)

Exhibitions

Group Shows

2005 Post-Deutch Bank exhibition, London
2006 Clyde & Co, Guilford Arts exhibition, Guildford, Surrey
2006 Untitled, The Railway, London
2006 The Hans Brinker hotel exhibition, Amsterdam
2007 Watch this space, The Cello Factory, London
2007 Wimbledon College of Art Degree Show, London
2007 Top 25 graduates in London, Salon Gallery, London
2007 Gibbo goes bananas, Flospace, London
2008 Leap, The Cello Factory, London

Prizes and awards
- Short listed for the “idis Pearce prize” for exceptional painting student,
- Runner-up in Hans Brinker hotel exhibition prize.
- Collection Artist for the University of Arts London,
- Selected in top 25 graduates in London, Salon Gallery summer show