James Wilde
James Wilde
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Daniel, 2019
Archival pigment print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
With white solid wood frame with museum glass
Edition 5 + 2AP (1 / 5 framed)
114 x 144 cm
£2800 (White Solid Wood Frame with Museum Glass)
£2500 (unframed)
About this work
Moving between thoughts about the night, shame and the queer image, this research considers ideas of abjection, the fallen male figure and the apologetic. Experimenting with the body, the still-life and interior spaces the limitations of the photographic image are revealed. The possibility of failure embedded in the process becomes a driving force in the work. These photographs seek to harness an agency, where the self-reflexive nature of the work uncovers a deeper analysis of shame through visual correspondence, scale and the play between private and public interaction. Photography here stands in as a visceral medium and suggests an exchange between the image and the observer.
About James Wilde
James Wilde is a visual artist working with photography, installation, moving image and text. He is a recent graduate from MA Photography at the Royal College of Art and has been selected for the BJP International Photography Award, Single Image Category 2020, with an exhibition at Seen Fifteen Gallery in South London. Last year he was awarded a residency at the SW Darkroom, which has led to James coordinating their first exhibition, Can We Dance Again? being held this summer. James holds a First Class BA (Hons) in Photography from the London College of Communication and is a member of Writing Photographs a strand of The Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub.
Surfacing from a place of fear and intrigue, James Wilde’s work focuses on autobiography, traces of personal failure and the photographic. Through distilling images, by reworking them through alternative processes, these photographs investigate the use of metaphor, the collapse of masculinity and the potential to overcome shame. Visibility is shifted and veiled, through the physical deterioration of the photograph and the slow death of the image. Subjects both pull out of the darkness and are lost within it.
Education
2018-2020 Royal College of Art, London, MA Photography
2013-2016 London College of Communiction, London, BA (Hons) Photography
2014 School of Visual Arts, New York, study abroad
2012-2013 London College of Communication, London, Foundation Diploma: Art & Design
Awards and Residences
2021 Fotofilmic Masterclass Scholarship Award with Mark McKnight
2020 British Journal of Photography, International Photography Award - Single Image Category Winner
2020 SW Darkroom x RCA Award - Artist Residency
2019 Writing Photographs Artist Residency - The Art Academy Newington, London
2016 Photoworks x LCC Award
Selected Exhibitions
2021 Can We Dance Again? , SW Darkroom, Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, London (forthcoming)
2021 The Art Vault x New Futures Digital, Kovet.Art, London (online)
2021 BJP International Photography Award 2020, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London
2020 with fists, it kicks, it bites, Webber Gallery, TJ Boulting, Fitzrovia Chapel & Edel Assanti, Fitzrovia London
2020 Odyssey, The South West Collective (online)
2020 RCA2020 , Royal College of Art, London (online)
2020 Connection Lost, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, Battersea London
2020 Blue Hour / PPS, Royal College of Art, London (curator)
2019 Writing the Night Across RCA, Royal College of Art, London
2019 Everything the Same // Everything a Little Different , The Art Academy Newington, London
2019 Writing Photographs III , The Art Academy Newington, London
2019 Offprint London, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London
2019 Education in Progress / Research Fortnight , London College of Communication, London
2019 Work In Progress Show, Royal College of Art, Battersea London
2018 Photography Project Space, Royal College of Art, London
2018 GLITCH, Drums Unlimited Studios, London
2017 40 Months / In Exile Group Exhibition, New Cross Gate London
2017 Photography on a Postcard, The Printspace, London
2017 Writing Photographs Group Exhibition, LCC Studio Space, London
2016 90 Degrees Final Year Show, London College of Communication, London
2016 Visitatori, Studio Guardione, Palermo
2015 Flesh & Roots, No. 63 Gallery, London
2015 Offprint London, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London
2014 Close To The Bone, School of Visual Arts, New York
2014 Round The Corner, 5th Base Gallery, London (curator)
2014 BAP1 Book Launch, BAR Gallery, London
2013 Foundation End of Year Show, London College of Communication, London