Jim Coverley

Nationality: British

d.o.b: 5th February 1976

Individual Condition

People are broken; it happens to everyone at some quiet and discreet moment. It occurs in a blink of an eye, a moment of raw, irrepressible psychological destruction that happens so naturally it is hard to recognise: the loss of innocence. Life gains speed, becoming more complicated. The ramifications of understanding the meaning of being physically orientated and our dependency on it, which is not everlasting, are what drives personal anxieties and desires: desire, obsession, dissatisfaction and a sense of significance and meaning is at the core of my art.

My works are displayed like examples of artefacts/specimens of modern mythology. They are hung, exposed naked on display, for all to see; witnessed like a mannequin in a shop window. They are made to be empty vessels, veneers or skins, alluding to how the body is constructed and how the environment affects them. Gravity is a vital tool, its pulling weight distorts the objects, sagging and stretching, folds, rips and wrinkles forming. The movement of materials throughout the operation, transforms , without adding or fully removing anything, creating the vessel. Elements reversing, insid...

Education

1998 - 2001: Royal Academy Schools of Arts: PGDip Fine Art (Sculpture), Distinction.
1994 - 1997: John Moores University 1st Class BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture)

Representation
Schirman & de Beauc Gallery, Paris

Awards

2003 Sharjah International Biennial Prize
2001 Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Award
2001 British Institution Fund
2000 Premiums scholarship award
1998-2001 Henry Moore Fellowship
1997-1998 John Moores Fellowship

Exhibitions

2008 March: Saatchi Online, Form Art Fair, Olympia, London
2008 January: Pretty Dirty Things (solo show), Schirman & de Beauc Gallery, Paris
2007 December: Deutsche Bank Group Show, London
2007 October: Slick Art Fair, Schirman & de Beauc Gallery, Paris
2007 June: Multicomplexificationalities, Nunnery Gallery, London (curator Roy Exley)
2007 January: Carcus (group show), Ashwin Street Gallery, London
2006-07: Uncanny (with Kiki Smith), The Royal Academy Schools Gallery, London (curator Michael Petry)
2006 June: An Uncanny Strangeness, (curator Guillaume Breton)
2005 September: Count to Ten (solo show), Zandra Rhodes Gallery, Rochester University (curator JJ Charlesworth)
2005 June: We Have Left the...