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James Elliott

MA Photography, Course Leader

James is a practising artist with a diverse practice that originated in drawing, sculpture and more traditional photography, but is currently focused upon ideas and opportunities presented by digital image making (both still and moving).   

An important element in James’ practice has, and continues to include education, and pedagogy. He is committed to ideas such as lifelong learning and the relevance, impact and significance of arts education. 

James' research interests

The working title for James’ artistic research is Temporal Place(s): Transitory Representations of the Landscape and is based around an investigation of whether the depiction of temporality might lead to a portrayal of the landscape which reflects our contemporary relationship with the land we inhabit and move through. 

This body of practical research continues James’ fascination with the representation of the landscape around us as something we inhabit and pass through (rather than stand outside of and admire). Visually he is interested in the fragmentation of the image through layering and folding. His work challenges the documentation of the landscape from a single position, preferring to explore the landscape(s) he passes through in a more holistic way.

His most recent work attempts to represent a landscape that is whole, whilst also being fragmented and broken apart. These are multiple images working as one, blending together moments in time, hodological spaces and locations into singular whole(s).

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