James Thompson

Rome based artist JPT, is currently residing in his most recent work: a shanty house within the walls of the "Room Gallery Rome". The British artist left school at the age of sixteen, going through a series of "shit" jobs before training as a goldsmith, working in the historic spa town of Bath.
Here he was exposed to a more Bourgeois style of life. This culture shock ignited a passion for an explanation for the causes of this difference in life style, and inspired JPT to express himself through painting.
An opportunity arose to visit Rome, becoming the turning point which lead JPT to quit his job , sell his car, abandon paying his rent and leave for Italy.
Without any academic artistic training, he began his 'uninfluenced' art, producing works of original style and content.
Rome is the catalysts in his conscious process of work, in which JPT uses an anthropological approach to the study of the classes, through the history of Rome, and drawing a comparison with that of his own inherited culture.
The most recent piece to be exhibited by the artist, is a wooden shack suspended upon columns made from materials found in the streets of Rome. JPT prints directly on the shack to reveal the chosen subject to be exposed: in this case,...