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My work deals with the perception of space and its interpretation. Working across sculpture, moving image and site-responsive performance using pre-existing spatial situations as the starting point, recorded and re-interpreted to construct new multi-dimensional experiences of reality.
Email: james@jamesthompson.info
Instagram: @j_ames__thompson
Selected Projects
2024
Artist Talk, Is this what we have left?, HPAC, Leeds
Collective Recording Hyde Park Book / Art Club, workshop, HPAC, Leeds
Sixty-Seven Skylines Walking Tour: Mabgate to Hunslet, performance, HPAC, Leeds
Is this what we have left?, group show, HPAC, Leeds
A few fragments of something found, solo show, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
Artist Talk, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
Collective Recording THAV, workshop, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
THAV S3 artist-in-residence, residency, Platform Asia x East St. Arts at Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
A few fragments of something lost, solo show, East St. Arts Project Space, Leeds
Becoming Part of the Architecture, publication, SLUICE [Vernacular], Colchester
Seeing with Another Eye, publication, by David Whiting, Arnoldsche, Stuttgart
Casting the Archive, publication, by Benedetta D’Ettorre, Made in Mind, Milan
Collective Recording The Tetley, workshop, The Tetley, Leeds
2023
Artist Talk, University of Leeds
Recording The Tetley, site research, The Tetley, Leeds
Re-Positional States, screening, Pavilion Presents, Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
Re-constructed Space, Seeing with Another Eye, group show, York Art Gallery
Re-constructed Space: Plinth, group show, Mint, London
Scanner Weaves, The Jacquard Project, group show, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley
2022
DIY culture, sustainability and future, publication, ed. Ryoko Akama, ame, Huddersfield
Re-constructed Space: Plinths, Routes North, group show, Messums, Harrogate
Exercises in Town Planning, workshop, The City Exchange, Leeds
2021
Artist Talk, Leeds Arts University
Artist Talk, York St John University
Artist Talk, University of Leeds
Re-Mapping LAG, workshop, LAG Youth Collective, Leeds Art Gallery
Sixty Skylines Walking Tours, performance, Leeds
Spatial Drifts, solo show, Leeds Art Gallery
Recording Performance Central Court II, performance, Leeds Art Gallery
Recording Performance [negative], Material Matters, group show, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley
Final attempt, Victoria, screening [online], Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Commemorative Space: Artist Reflections on Monumentality in Leeds, publication [online], ed. Dr. Rebecca Senior, Corridor8, Leeds
Composite Space: Studio, Season1, group show, Humber Street Gallery, Hull
2020
Recording Performance I, screening [online], Re-shift, Re-calibrate, curated by Myriam Mouflih, Pavilion, Leeds
YSI Sculpture Network, artist development, Yorkshire Sculpture International
2019
A-N x East Street Arts at Istanbul Biennial 2019, artist development, Istanbul
Artist Talk, Nocturne for INDEX, The Tetley, Leeds
Recording Performance [negative], performance, INDEX at YSI, Leeds Town Hall
Parallel Architectures IIIII, duo show, INDEX at YSI, Leeds Town Hall
Self-Digitalisation, screening, Pavilion Weekend Screenings, curated by Herb Shellenberger, Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
Recording Performance Woodhouse Moor, performance, Leeds
2018
In-conversation with Sarah Brown, artist talk, Leeds Art Gallery
2017
Occupations, workshop, Leeds Art Gallery & University of Huddersfield
Recording Performance Central Court I, performance, Leeds Art Gallery
Recording Leeds Art Gallery, residency, Leeds Art Gallery
Inflated Space III, solo show, East St. Arts Project Space, Leeds
2016
Inflated Space II, solo show, East St. Arts Project Space, Leeds
Re-constructed Space, group show, Apalazzo Gallery, Forte dei Marmi
2015
Self-Digitalisation, screening, Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath
Interdisciplinary Residency, residency, Hospitalfield Arts, Arbroath
Reconstructed Space, group show, Mint, London
Emergency Defence Exercise Video, screening, Merchant City Festival, Glasgow
Emergency Defence Exercise Video, screening, KARST Gallery, Plymouth
Re-constructed Space, Örnsbergsauktionen, group show, Galleri Bon, Stockholm
2014
Re-constructed Space, Atemporaneo, group show, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia
Re-constructed Space, group show, Mint, London
Emergency Defence Exercise Video, screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Emergency Defence Exercise Video, screening, Cove Park, Helensburgh
UK Crafts Residency, residency, Cove Park, Helensburgh
Re-constructed Space, Mixed Display, group show, Marsden Woo Gallery, London
2013
In-conversation with Glenn Adamson, artist talk, Marsden Woo Gallery, London
Expanding Spaces, solo show, Marsden Woo Gallery, London
A Good Fence Makes A Good Neighbour, group show, RCA, London
A Good Fence Makes A Good Neighbour, Information in Style, group show, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
2012
Parallel Architectures, Collective RCA MMXII, group show, DDW, Eindhoven
Parallel Architectures, Show RCA 2012, group show, RCA, London
Recording Space as Time, RCA Paradise, group show, Ventura Lambrate, Milan
Interaction with Unseen Space, group show, Matadero, Madrid
2010
Platform 8 at Przetwory 5, group show, Soho Factory, Warsaw
Lecturing
2024-2025 Associate Lecturer, BA Fine Art, University of Leeds
2014-2023 Associate Lecturer, BA Design, Goldsmiths University of London
2012-2021 Lecturer, Object and Spatial Design; Fine Art, Leeds Arts University
Education
MA RCA, Royal College of Art
BA (Hons), Leeds College of Art
Foundation Diploma, Leeds College of Art
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All works © 2010-2025
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