I Can no Longer be Precious Painting

James D. Hopkins (b.1994, Cardiff) is an artist living and working in London. He has exhibited in London, various locations around the UK as well as in Madrid, New York and Florida and in 2018 was an October resident at chaNorth Artist Residency, Upstate New York. James’ work focuses on the asymmetrical and absurd, exploring cultish iconography and performative combat. Consuming an abundance of prolific online media which is absorbed and regurgitated into a mesh of over-saturated grotesqueness; combining humour with a feeling of unrelenting dread. Paintings. Characters and installations which are aesthetically alarming, repetitive, nostalgic humorous and unsettling, grounded in the idea of Kayfabe; a professional wrestling term describing staged events portrayed as if they were real. He works with costume, painting, performance, video, sculpture and installation, often combining these media simultaneously. ​His alter-ego Deadboy the Kid is a member of DANKCollective, a London art collective who focus on the absurdity, humour and violence of post-irony culture.