James Johnson-Perkins is a British artist whom has exhibited in the USA, Russia, Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy, Romania, Lithuania and the UK. Including: The IMAC Theatre, New York, USA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia, Toyota Museum of Modern Art, Japan, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow and The Royal College of Art (RCA), London. He has recently had solo shows at: The Public, West Bromwich, UK, Kube Gallery, Poole, UK, DLI, Durham, UK, Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, The King's Lynn Art Centre, UK, Red Gallery, Hull, UK, Art Gene, Barrow-in-furnace, UK and Exhibit Gallery, London, UK. In 2010, he is the Artist In Residence with the Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy and The Bridge Gaurd, Štúrovo, Slovakia. Current artworks include: an attempt to beat the world record for the most amount of people doing robotics, a giant army of totemic Mega Blok and Lego characters, scrolling message boards, Den Sculptures, Interactive Ready Mades, Lego plaques with retro statements and an array of animations using 8 bit computer graphics and modernist geometric shapes. He has also recently been working on a series of ultra-large scale photographic works, using gigapan technology. These were initiated in Venice, Italy, 2010. James Johnson-Perkins has exhibited with artists including: James Hugonin, Sean Scully, Ross Sinclair, Andre Stitt, Michael Nyman, Graham Dolphin, Bill Drummond, Mat Stokes, Gustav Metzger, Robin Klassnik, Bob and Roberta Smith and Alison Knowles. In 2009/10 Johnson-Perkins created two custom made installations for two of the most iconic art spaces built in the UK. The Kube, Formerly The Study Gallery in 2000, designed by Richard Horde. |
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The Public Building which is a unique exhibition space that was originally designed by award-winning architect Will Alsop and completed by Flannery & de la Pole architects. |
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About the artist: "Reminiscing about childhood is a practice routinely explored by those after a whimsical slice of the past, but it's something not regularly investigated in art. Conceptual artist James Johnson-Perkins is about to change that. Andrew Fenwick "I suspect that this collection of ‘robots’ by James Johnson-Perkins is a self-portrait. A collection of super–heroes, who are all versions of the artist.” Helen Smith, Director of Waygood Gallery "In Johnson-Perkins’ constructions Lego parts and Mega Bloks, in their bright, shiny, simple colours, mediate ironically between the forms of art and the fantasy of childhood play." Malcolm Gee, Professor of Art History, Northumbria University |
