ann-marie james
 
I am interested in making works that, in different ways, acknowledge and play with their positions as artworks. Through painting, drawing, sculpture and photography, I employ quotation as a tactic through which (often figurative) elements can acknowledge and engage with the history of art.

I seek to explore the transmutation of something beautiful into something monstrous (but still beautiful), and in taking something that already has an established cultural reading that I can wrestle with. Operating within the existing aesthetic of a found image or object, I aim to make something that is both in keeping with, and at odds with, the nature of its source.




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Ann-Marie James Hanami, Soho Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
22 - 24 April 2011


Ann-Marie James Pareidolia, Edel Assanti Project Space, London
25 March - 25 April 2010


Ann-Marie James Danse Macabre, First Floor Projects, London
10 December 2009 - 30 January 2010