James W Foster

Born in the Midlands, UK. Lives and works in Southampton, UK with wife Lori after previously spending nearly a decade working, exhibiting and running nightclub events in Swansea throughout the early to mid-noughties.A frustrated film-maker! After a childhood spent aiming to work in film or television I realised that it would be much more interesting to find alternative means with which to capture the essence of life.As a result I try to make 'movies' through what is typically classed as 'Fine Art' media, particularly painting and digital still images. My work treads the fine line between light and dark and can be simultaneously colourful, amusing, bitter or miserable - because life is never purely one thing or the other.Influences include: Love, fairground rides, The 'K' Foundation/KLF/JAMMs/Timelords, Hunter S Thompson, Andy Warhol, The Principia Discordia, The Milkkitten Collective, Edvard Munch, Terry Gilliam, little involuntary pauses in conversation that reveal much more than the words, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Noisy music, Marcel Duchamp,John Peel, David Bowie, Dogme 95, Prof. Kevin Warwick, Chris Morris, The noises and smells of cities, Keith Haring, John Wood &; Paul Harrison, Banksy, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ju...

Higher/Further Education2008 - 2009Brockenhurst College, HampshireNVQ Level 2 Business & Administration1998 - 2001University of Wales, Swansea Institute of H.E.Townhill RoadTownhillSwanseaSA2 0UTBA Honours in Fine Art (2:1)1997 - 1998Stroud College of F.E.Stratford RoadStroudGloucestershireBTEC Foundation in Art & Design (Merit)

7th-20th Sep. 2009 'Dreaming In Chinese Whispers' by the Vent Collective live painting exhibition (video and time-lapse documentation and participating artist). PS2, 18 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2GP.
Jun.-Jul. 2009 'Vent Collective' group exhibition, Apartment Bar, 2 Donegall Square West, Belfast BT1 6JA.Mar.-Apr. 2009 '10th International Miniart Exchange', Abasolo Cultural Center School of Architecture - Universidade Autnoma de Nuevo Len Monterrey, Mexico.Mar.-May 2009 '9th International Miniart Exchange', Gallery of the Municipal Pinacotheca and Gallery of the Cultural Center of Culture, Rio Grande, Brazil. Jul-Sep. 2008 '8th International Mini Art Exchange', Center Gallery of the Federal University of the Amazon, Manaus, Amazon, Brazil.Jul-Nov. 2008 '7th International Mini Art Exchange', Touring exhibition, Argentina.May-Jun. 2008. '6th International Miniart Exchange', Xico Stockinger Gallery, House of Culture Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil.Mar. 2008. '5th International Miniart Exchange: England'. Central Library, Bournemouth, UK.June 2007 'Access Festival' (as part of a day-long exhibition in the Arts tent) Mayflower Park, Southampton.Apr.-May. 2007 'International Mini Art Exchange' (As part of 'Projeto RS', a tour...