James Wilde
James Wilde
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Too Heavy For You, 2019
Archival pigment print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
With white solid wood frame with museum glass
Edition 5 + 2AP (1 / 5 framed)
60 x 66 cm
£1800 (White Solid Wood Frame with Museum Glass)
£1500 (unframed)
About this work
Seeing photography as a visceral medium for shame, the work imbues or aims to restore pendulation between the observer and the image. The notion of fixity has been crucial in terms of both the physicality of the works along with the concept of paralysis. The stiffening feeling of shame and Gershen Kaufman’s perception of shame being the ‘fear of self-exposure’ have resulted in this language echoing through to the darkroom. Solarisation has transformed some of these latent images (the process whereby the prints have exposure to light again), rendering a poetic analogy to marginal spaces, to being on the edge, being between states and the space of the night too.
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