James Ireland
James Ireland combines found images with natural and industrial materials to make sculptures that play on traditional and modern ideas of landscape. The works bring together manufactured components and natural elements that have become part of a collective frame of reference and for the genre, provoking reflection on the meaning and aesthetic of natural and artificial surroundings. Pieces are often generated through the arrangement of simple mass produced objects; plastic bags, posters, concrete, polystyrene, metal display structures, or employ mirrors and translucent surfaces to reflect and filter the environment. "The work," to quote Ireland, "is about how the world we do live in produces a desire for a world we don’t live in."
Born in 1977, James Ireland graduated from Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford in 1999. Exhibitions include, Always Greener, PM Gallery, Ealing, UK; Material Presence, 176, London, UK; Beyond the Country: perspectives of the land in historic and contemporary art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Uncanny Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia; Scape, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; with solo exhibitions at the Economist Building, Angel Row Gallery, …
James Ireland combines found images with natural and industrial materials to make sculptures that play on traditional and modern ideas of landscape. The works bring together manufactured components and natural elements that have become part of a collective frame of reference and for the genre, provoking reflection on the meaning and aesthetic of natural and artificial surroundings. Pieces are often generated through the arrangement of simple mass produced objects; plastic bags, posters, concrete, polystyrene, metal display structures, or employ mirrors and translucent surfaces to reflect and filter the environment. "The work," to quote Ireland, "is about how the world we do live in produces a desire for a world we don’t live in."
Born in 1977, James Ireland graduated from Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford in 1999. Exhibitions include, Always Greener, PM Gallery, Ealing, UK; Material Presence, 176, London, UK; Beyond the Country: perspectives of the land in historic and contemporary art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Uncanny Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia; Scape, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania; Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; with solo exhibitions at the Economist Building, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK; f a projects, London and Spike Island, Bristol, UK. His permanently installed commissions can be seen at Kingfisher Court, Radlett, St. Bart’s Hospital, London, UK, and at the Zabludowicz Collection, Sarvisalo, Finland.
Courtesy of the Zabludowicz Collection and the Contemporary Art Society.
