James Jessiman

MA work

Pleasure Zone, 2017
Screen print on powder coated aluminum, pray painted steel
106cm x 106cm x 30cm
LC4-90, 2017
Screenprint on powder coated Aluminium, spray-painted steel
80 x 163 x 80 cm
Perception Management, 2016
Screen-print and digital print on paper mounted on board, housed in artists’ made screen-printed cork frame, spray paint
42 x 60 x 7.5cm
YIKES!!, 2016
Screen-print and digital print on paper mounted on board, housed in artists’ made screen-printed cork frame, spray paint
42 x 60 x 7.5cm
Untitled (Rope Trio), 2017
Screenprint, acrylic and on canvas
Each 24 x 54 cm

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Often varied in output, James Jessiman's work attempts to display and mesh together a number of references. Using an archive of collected printed matter, he strips away context and language to focus on themes of the future and ask where our world might be going.
An important beginning to the work, whether sculpture or collage, is drawing. His drawings represent fictive spaces that lie between the gallery and the domestic, as well as workings out for sculptural works. Recent sculptures continue the theme of the domestic, occupying the space between furniture and the art object. Works appear to offer some purpose to the viewer, though the function of each is not altogether clear.
Hopes and intentions from movements in contemporary culture, Modernist architecture, early European rave movements, Science Fiction, and a personal collection of spiritual and religious leaflets all inform his practice. Each have their own positive vision for the future and shared optimism to build towards a New World. If each sets their sight on a new world, where does this new world go upon every movements failure?

Experience
Illustration BA Visiting tutor, Kingston University, 2017; Fine Art BA (RCA Placement), Ruskin School of Art, , 2017; Programme Manager, Studio-K: An independent teaching programme for young people in schools, London, 2016, 2017; Programme co-ordinator, National Saturday Art and Design Club, Kingston University, 2016; Printmaking Artist in Residence, Cornwall College, Camborne, 2015; Assistant printmaker, The Curwen Studio, Cambridgeshire, 2014-2015; Head Printmaker, Nobrow Press, London, 2012-2015; Printmaker / Assistant, Le Dernier Cri, Marseille, 2011

Exhibitions
ずれた- 'Zureta’ University of the Arts, Tokyo, 2017; Freshly Squeezed, RCA Print Group Show, CGP London, 2017; Horizontal Smile, Two person show with Adam Glibbery, The Hockney Gallery, RCA Kensington, London, 2017; Reasons Sleep, Doomed Gallery, London, 2017; EDITIONS, Tripp Gallery, London, 2016; Letter to the Proxy, P.P.S Royal College of Art, London, 2016; Break / Link, CGP, London, 2016; TO DO, The Sassoon Gallery, London, 2015; Dimension(s) Variable, Waiting Rooms 84 Hatton Gardens, London, 2015; Friday Lates, V&A Museum, London, 2013; Paragraphs (Solo), Peckham Springs Gallery, 2013

Awards
Print Futures Award 2016; The Eaton Fund, 2015; The Ann Watson’s Trust, 2015; The Prowdes Educational Foundation, 2015; The Zobel Charitable Trust, 2015; The Company of Merchant Taylors of the City of York, 2015, 2016; Ruby Will and George Trust, 2015, 2016; The Sidney Perry Foundation, 2015, 2016; Sir Mark and Lady Turner Charitable Settlement, 2015, 2016; The Printing Charity, 2016; Philip Bates Trust, 2016; Coats Foundation, 2016; Leathersellers' Company University Exhibition Fund, 2016

Publications
Lushington Bellevue, Snöar Press, London, 2017; MEGA2000, Self published, London, 2017; Hot Bed and Other Drawings, London, Heuberger Books, 2015