Photographs play an important role within James's practice through combining found and made imagery, and documenting experience. As with collaged and assembled pieces, many seek to layer and interconnect imagery to explore visual and contextual relationships, particularly with regards to landscape, natural history and the body/senses.
The primary focus of James's work in art and ecology, is the act of exploring materials and environments through sensory exploration (walking, collecting etc) and making. Such investigations may then also lead to photo and video based works.
Through visiting a particular place, often locally to his Wiltshire home, and exploring the relationship of a made object to these surroundings, he can continue to investigate its environmental and bodily context. New layers of meaning can be uncovered by the meeting of work and place, furthering the dialogue between person and landscape, and informing future artwork.


Breathe 2009 Untitled 2010

Bird House 2009 Bird 2009
Belonging (Forest series) 2007 Inside Out (Shirt)
During
collaborations with another artist or group, James looks at how
different media can be combined to share ideas and working methods,
using movement, constructed artworks, sound and projection of a photo or video to explore connections between disciplines, individuals and their local environment.


Video Still from Mask Dance 2002 Video Still from Singing Ribbons 2002
Designed and directed in collaboration with 'The Messy Rainbow Glitter Show'
for Reach Inclusive Arts (Produced by Iona Fabian)


Watching the Cradle Held (Bella)
Digital Images from transparencies 1996/2008