James Page

Born in Bahamas, 1983
Lives and works in London

James Page's work is an exploration of our correlative human condition: between the corporeal and the metaphysical. In an examination of our physical substance Page continually asks us to reassess our social predispositions towards matter. His work oscillates between images of erotic stimulation and the temporal condition of our physical state. The duality between vitality and atrophy throughout his work is an admission, and indeed a celebration, of our earthly existence. Consistently in his work Page seeks to erase material distinctions; clay becomes mud, or flesh, or bone and incidentally is neither cause for delight or dismay. The need to affirm the physical consistency of his body with the earth itself is a meditation on human origin and place.
There is immediacy to Page's work that develops into a tension. Often, through the use of his own bodily materials, his pieces cause a primary emotive displeasure but as one continues to look the works beauty becomes apparent. His work illustrates the contradictory manner in which we see our body, after which we are compelled to reassess. Page's practice is an act of reconciliation, mediating between conditioned neurosis about our bod...

2009 - 2011 MA Royal College of Art, London

2004 - 2007 BA Contemporary applied art, University College Falmouth

2002 -2003 Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, Arts Institute Bournemouth

2013 Group Show: Brixton East Gallery, London

2012 Vulpes Vulpes open, Hackney, London

2012 When I Woke: Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales

2012 Pho.bi.a: Lincolnshire

2011 Transitional Matters: Hackney, London

2011 Anatomy: The Cob Gallery, London

2011 Cally: Kings cross, London

2011 RCA Graduation show: Kensington, London

2011 Pruskin Gallery, Kensington, London

2011 Remet/RCA Foundary: Howie Street Project Space, London

2011 The King & the Minotaur: Kings Cross, London

2010 Interim show RCA, Kensington

2010 Brick: Elephant and castle, South London

2010 Wax Work: Hockney Gallery, RCA, Kensington

2010 Changing Nature: Vulpes Vulpes, Hackney

2010 It’s nice that, If I could collaborate: Rochelle School, Shoreditch

2009 Held in the Hand: Leicester (Commission)

2008 The body after death: Trolley gallery: Shoreditch

2007 Cream of the Crop: Goldolphin House: Falmouth

2007 Post: Falmouth Arts Centre: Falmouth

2007 New Designers: London

2006 Material Evidence: Falmouth Arts Centre: Falmouth