Approved: 12.11.2021

Jim Roseveare

Artist

Approved: 12.11.2021

Jim Roseveare has exhibited internationally and in the UK including Istanbul Art Fair; Saatchi Gallery; Venice Bieannale;  Kinokino, Sandnes (Norway); Museo MACO (Mexico); Farley Farm House; Transition Gallery, London. In 2021 he exhibited at Aspex Portsmouth (Emergency2021) ; Gallery 46, Whitechapel ; The AIR Open, Manchester and with The London Group in Waterloo. He is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors.                                                                                                                                                           My art practice investigates the perception and making of landscape, focussing on the complex, ever-changing and entangled relationships between people, nature and culture. An arboricultural background of working with trees over 30 years grounds my practice in an understanding of material. Tree surgery is a form of sculpture with living entities that constantly change with cycles of growth, dormancy, decline and decay. This informs my approach to form, function, mutability and time in producing sculptures and site-specific installations.

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Artist Statement

Jim Roseveare has exhibited internationally and in the UK including Istanbul Art Fair; Saatchi Gallery; Venice Bieannale;  Kinokino, Sandnes (Norway); Museo MACO (Mexico); Farley Farm House; Transition Gallery, London. In 2021 he exhibited at Aspex Portsmouth (Emergency2021) ; Gallery 46, Whitechapel ; The AIR Open, Manchester and with The London Group in Waterloo. He is a member of The Royal Society of Sculptors.                                                                                                                                                           My art practice investigates the perception and making of landscape, focussing on the complex, ever-changing and entangled relationships between people, nature and culture. An arboricultural background of working with trees over 30 years grounds my practice in an understanding of material. Tree surgery is a form of sculpture with living entities that constantly change with cycles of growth, dormancy, decline and decay. This informs my approach to form, function, mutability and time in producing sculptures and site-specific installations.

From early nomadic life through agricultural and industrial revolution to collective utopias, people’s relationship with the environment has been multifarious, encompassing elements of fear, containment, productivity and exploitation, alongside guardianship, awe and ritual worship. In response, my work investigates how people respond to the contemporary and forthcoming social, political and environmental challenges of the Anthropocene.
 
Many of my sculptures incorporate concrete, organic materials and debris swept from surrounding ground surfaces; seeds embedded within may germinate and sprout new life as other materials decay.  Precariously balanced blocks use kinaesthetic tension to unsettle or provoke curiosity, while modular and standardised building materials evoke the scale and contingency of the human body. I explore the boundaries of conventional fabrication, integrating decay and renewal; techniques that elicit a sense of reverse archeology and industrial fossilisation, evoking environmental change and deep time.

 

CV & Education

Jim Roseveare MRSS     
6 Conqueror Rd, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex TN38 8DD  
[email protected]   jamesroseveare.wordpress.com   +44 7939 340345

Selected Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors 2020

 

Selected solo exhibitions / residencies

Feb - Aug 2018       Tree Sense | Arts for Health Residency | with Boyd & Evans | Milton Keynes

Sept - Dec 2016       Stelae for Foreign Bodies | Artists Residency | Elements Gallery |         commissioner: Rebecca Feiner | London E8

April - Oct 2015       Field | Farley Farm House Sculpture Garden |  + Arts Award | commissioner: Anthony Penrose | Chiddingly, East Sussex

Sept 2011                Fish Stock | Coastal Currents Spotlight | The Stade Project Space, Hastings

2004 – 05                The Florence Trust Residency | The Florence Trust, London


Selected group exhibitions

2021
April                Tracks and Traces | Virtual exhibition | AIR Contemporary Gallery | curator : Becky Wild | Altrincham, UK

June                Coming up for Air | The London Group and Friends | curator: Clive Burton | Waterloo Festival, London

July                  Can we ever know the meaning of these objects | Gallery 46 | curators: Kevin Quigley, Sarah Sparkes | London E1 2AJ

Aug - Oct         EMERGENCY 2021 | ASPEX Gallery | curator: Vickie Fear | The Vulcan Building, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, PO1 3BF

Aug - Sept        AIR Open | AIR Contemporary Gallery  | Altrincham, WA14 1LE
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2020
March         Zuzushii Art Laboratory | curators: Tim Can and Fumico Azuma | Hastings TN34 IJY

May - Dec  Hastings Open 2020 | Hastings Museum, East Sussex

May           Hulabhaig Uig Open 2020 | Re-imagined Online | Hulabhaig Gallery, Isle of Lewis

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2019
July          Liminality4 | Gallery46 | with Jake Chapman + | curators: Sean McLusky & Bjorn Hatleskog | London E1 2AJ

June         Come Hell or High Water | The London Group + | curators: Almuth Tebbenhoff, Cadi  Froehlich | Waterloo Festival, London

May - Aug     Miniscule Venice | curator: Vanya Balogh | 58th La Biennale Di Venezia. Fondamenta Sant’Anna 996 Castello. Venice, 30122

Feb - May     Empire II  After Extinction | Museo MACO |  Oaxaca, Mexico

Feb         Four legs good, two legs bad | The Year of the Pig |  curator: Rebecca Feiner | Q Park, Leicester Sq, London
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2018
Oct            Protocol (Frieze Week) | Q Park, Cavendish Square, London W1         

June         Nothing Endures but Change |  The London Group and Friends | curator: Susan Haire | Waterloo Festival, London

April - Sept     Sweep-Landskip | with Derek Jarman and Peter Joseph | curator: Roberto Ekholm (ECKO) | Kinokino, Sandnes, Norway

Feb         Embracing the Underdog | curator Susan Haire, President of The London Group | Q Park, Chinatown, London W1
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2008 - 2017
 

April 2017     Speedway | with Luci Eyers and Andrew Kotting | Transition Gallery, London E8
 

May 2017 to Aug 2019   

Empire II | Film shorts | Curator Vanya Balogh | 57th Biennale di Venezia, Italy  (Touring - Tallin, Estonia; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France; Zagreb, Croatia; Oaxaca, Mexico)

2015        Sotto Vocci | Italian artists exchange | Hastings, East Sussex
                Chinese Open | Year of the Sheep | Q Park, Chinatown, London W1
 

2014        Le Voci Rotrovate | Artists Residency | Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy
                Marvellous Mix Ups | with Cedric Christie and Vanya Balogh + | Fulham, London
               We are Oak Passage | with Andrew Kotting and Greig Burgoyne | Stour Valley Arts,
 

2013        Strarta Art Fair | Saatchi Gallery, London SW3
                Twelve by Six | De La Warr Pop Up Gallery, Bexhill
 

2012        Artbeat Festival | Cairo, Alexandria, El Mansoura, Egypt
 

2011        Art in Romney Marsh | Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Romney Marsh

2010        From A to B | Anglo-French exhibition | Dover
                East Sussex Open | The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
 

2009       International Art Symposium (selected artist) | Patras, Greece
                Shot by the Sea | with Ben Rivers and Andrew Kotting | Claremont, Hastings
 

2008       The 18th Istanbul Art Fair | Tuyap, Istanbul, Turkey


 

Education
 

1995 – 98        London College of Communication | BA. First Class Hons. Photography
 

1982 – 85        Askham Bryan College, York | Nat.Dip.Arboriculture. Royal Forestry Certificate