b. 1986 [Romford, Essex]
Lives & Works, London, UK
In an attempt to find out where the freedoms of contemporary painting lie James Low expands upon the language of painterly abstraction by working on both sides of a translucent canvas.
The multi-layering of synthetic and metallic colour are used to foreground an idea of paint as a technology where it is presupposed that despite abstraction being little over a century old there is still so much for it to achieve.
Building upon the relevance of post-conceptual painting James goes further by deploying cartographic maps, porcelain cats, structural footings, tree diagrams, rock pigment, ovals, craters, coins and mirrors to formulate an expansive conceit in each work.
︎ Exhibitions ︎
2020/19
CV
Group Shows
PICTURA 2020, Art Mûr, MONTREAL — October-December 2020
Part of a city-wide survey of Contemporary painting encompassing some 30 private galleries as well as The Museum of Fine Arts and the AGAC (Contemporary Art Gallery Association).
LURES, Tension Fine Art, LONDON — March 14 - April 19th 2020
Group Show, suspended due to Coronavirus with RCA Graduates: John Atherton and Fernando M. Romero.
EXCEPTIONAL, Collyer Bristow, LONDON — Nov 7th 2019 - Feb 19th 2020
29 Graduates selected from City and Guilds of London Art School, Chelsea College of Art, CSM, Goldsmiths, Kingston University, Royal Drawing School, Royal College of Art, Slade School of Art and Turps Art School
GOLDSMITHS MFA Degree Show, LONDON — July 2019
Annual Graduate show of students on the MFA programme
GOLD X as part of Deptford X, Asquith Gibbs Studios, LONDON — October 2018
As part of the weekend festival of Deptford X
Education
University of Goldsmiths, New Cross, London — MFA Fine Art, 2019
Bath Spa University, Bath, Avon — BA (hons) Fine Art, 2008
Westcliff High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, — 2004
Awards
Winner of Collyer Bristow Graduate award 2019, London, UK selected by the Contemporary Art Society, Kristian Day and Rosalind Davis (Curator)
PICTURA 2020, Art Mûr, MONTREAL — October-December 2020
Part of a city-wide survey of Contemporary painting encompassing some 30 private galleries as well as The Museum of Fine Arts and the AGAC (Contemporary Art Gallery Association).
LURES, Tension Fine Art, LONDON — March 14 - April 19th 2020
Group Show, suspended due to Coronavirus with RCA Graduates: John Atherton and Fernando M. Romero.
EXCEPTIONAL, Collyer Bristow, LONDON — Nov 7th 2019 - Feb 19th 2020
29 Graduates selected from City and Guilds of London Art School, Chelsea College of Art, CSM, Goldsmiths, Kingston University, Royal Drawing School, Royal College of Art, Slade School of Art and Turps Art School
GOLDSMITHS MFA Degree Show, LONDON — July 2019
Annual Graduate show of students on the MFA programme
GOLD X as part of Deptford X, Asquith Gibbs Studios, LONDON — October 2018
As part of the weekend festival of Deptford X
Education
University of Goldsmiths, New Cross, London — MFA Fine Art, 2019
Bath Spa University, Bath, Avon — BA (hons) Fine Art, 2008
Westcliff High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, — 2004
Awards
Winner of Collyer Bristow Graduate award 2019, London, UK selected by the Contemporary Art Society, Kristian Day and Rosalind Davis (Curator)