James Moore
b. 1979, Cardiff
Lives and works in Cardiff, Wales
Extreme Metaphors oil on canvas, 100 x 65cm, 2014
James Moore
is a painter. His paintings, humorously sit in an awkward space between fact and fiction, referring to simulated worlds such as computer games and museum dioramas.
My work has evolved from a kind of straight forward photo-realist style into a painting technique that plays with mimicry. Im interested in a subversion of the role of a painter of realistic imagery. The only truth to be found in my work is subjective - the paintings are of subjects that are usually either fake, don't really exist, or are impossible to see in the flesh, but that still have a collective reality amongst groups of people. They act as a pointer to the plastic, simulated space that we increasingly inhabit.
In 2002 James Completed an MA at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Hes had recent solo shows at Elysium, Swansea; Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan; and many group shows including Saatchi Gallery, London; National Eisteddfod of Wales, Cardiff; and Paper Gallery Manchester.
Cities of Ash
Rumblestrip
Links :
http://www.axisweb.org/p/jamesmoore/
