Thomas Peter James

 

(b. 1993) Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.

 

Education

2016 - 2018         Royal College of Art, MA Information Experience Design, London, UK.

2015                    Work placement in Lockbund Fine Art Foundry

2012 - 2016         Oxford Brookes University, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

2013                    Erasmus Exchange in Vilnius Dailies Academia, Lithuania

2011                    Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Wales, United Kingdom

2009 - 2011         BTEC National Diploma Studies in Fine Art, Gower College, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

 

Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

 

2024               Notion and Nuances | Galeri, Caernarfon, UK

2024               Solo Show: Holding Horizons | HeyJoe, Bodrum, TR

2024               Group Show: Lost Love | Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK 

2022               TaaT Hall 09_22 - Encounter Portals | Art Printing House, Vilnius, LT

2020               Poetry as a Form of Spores | Anti-University Fesitival, Colwyn Hall, London, UK

04/2019          What Shape Are You In? Mamut Art Project, in collaboration with Seher Deniz Kiran | Mamut Art, Istanbul, TR

2019               Group Show: Social Volumes | Kara Gallery, Izmit, TR

06/2018          Final Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2017               Nature Inquiry | Quadrangle, Kent, UK
05/2018          Group ShowHow did we get here? | London, UK

10/2017          Hello Tomorrow Summit | Paris, France

05/2017          Food Futures - RCA Bio-design Challenge | Unit 5, White City London, UK
04/2017          Group Show: Re-definition | Ha Miffal, Jerusalem, Israel
11/2016          Animal-Computer Interaction | The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
07/2016          Group Show: Free Range | Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
05/2016          Private View: Off the wall, Oxford Brookes Degree Show | Oxford Brookes University, UK

11/2015          Beneath the Skin | Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice, Italy

04/2014          VDA, Art Academy Show | Lithuania 

11/2013          Magdalen Road Artist Studios, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Residencies

 

10/2024-25     Ecology of Inspiration, RCF Research project | Bodrum, TR

10/2022          TaaT Hall 09_22 - Encounter Portals, Vilnius, Lithuania
03/2021          TaaT Hall 09_22 - Encounter Portals, Vilnius, Lithuania

2021                Joon Dance, Animals, UK

2017                Nature Inquiry, Quadrangle, Kent, UK

11/2014           Artist Residency in Magdalen Road, Oxford, UK

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Work Experience

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2019-Pr          Royal College of Fungi - Creative Workshop Facilitator 2020 Art commission - Kokopelli Sehirde, Istanbul, UK
2018               ReachOut RCA, London, UK
2017               Bio-design Competition: Futures, London, UK

2017               Royal College of Fungi, Workshops, London, UK
2016               RCA ReachOUT, V&A Museum, London, UK
2016               Freelance 3D-Assistant, Oxford Brookes University, UK
2015               Placement at Lockbund Bronze Foundry, Banbury, UK

2010-12          Photographic Studio Volunteer, Dragon Arts, Swansea, UK

2008-12          Volunteer Foundry Assistant, UWTSD, Carmarthen, UK