I make work by finding and mutating images, objects, and texts into new shapes and narrative structures. I attempt this through etching, assemblage-paintings, and text for performance. These works reflect my interest in drab Englishness, re-emerging apocalyptic fears, masculinities both beautiful and toxic, and everyday encounters with chance and the uncanny. I redact, dissect, and collide things into each other in the hopes of finding moments of humour, insight, or mystery.
contact@jamesrandell.info
Instagram: @james_randell_
Past shows
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 2024
The Writer’s Room, residency at Wild Pansy Press, September 2024 & February 2025
Print Revue 2023-24, Soho Revue, July 2024
A Curious Cloud, Soho Revue, March 2024
London Original Print Fair, March 2024
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 2023
Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Cottage, 2023
Space Matters, with David Manley, hARTslane, December 2022
Hart School Showcase, Protein Studios, October 2022
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 2021
Works on Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage, 2021
To Believe Or Not To Believe, with David Manley, Hart Club, January 2021
Works on Paper 3, Blue Shop Cottage, 2020
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 2020
Hart Store, Hart Club London, November 2019
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, November 2019
The Feeling’s Mutual, sculpture garden at The Rectory Projects for Art Licks Weekend, October 2019
Dinner Time, Platform Southwark, August-September 2019
Limehouse Open Salon, Three Colt Gallery, August 2019
Everything Must Go!, Assembly Point, July 2019
Enough! Or Too Much! with Tom Sewell, The Rectory Projects, April 2019
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2018
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, March 2018
First The Bad News, residency, Muddy Yard, October 2017
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, October 2017
Creekside Open 2017, APT Gallery, May 2017
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, March 2017
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Royal Arsenal Riverside, London, 17-20 November 2016
By Proxy The Darkling Beast Shines, Art Licks Weekend, APT Gallery, London, September 2016
Curatorial
Print Revue 2023-24, Soho Revue, July 2024
A Curious Cloud, Soho Revue, March 2024
The Rectory Projects, co founder and curator, 2016 - 2020
Education:
MA Art Education, Culture and Practice, UCL Institute of Education, 2020-2023
BA Fine Art - University of Leeds 2011-15 (1st Class Honours)
University of California, Berkeley 2013-14