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artist statement

I think the best art sits right on the edge between things; it has a bite, it seems to sit in contrast to itself, it’s not quite resolved. In not being resolved the magic is there, the glamour is in effect and it does so, not through meaning without substance, a deeply alienating thing that is only thought about but not felt; nor is it substance without meaning, purely aesthetics without any conception of why or what, but a fuzzy middle that allows interplay between both. Good work is both implied and explicit, it asserts what it's saying and yet paradoxically it is deeply ambiguous about what it's not, the most exciting work is often a mess, that mess allows the illusion of it being vivid and alive.

 

As for what I do, I try to make forms that have that rub of glamour and hopefully tread the line between those states.

exhibitions

2024 - stillness exhibition @ gallery57

2024 - brighton arts trail

2023 - artwave festival

2023 - mothshell ambit @ weald contemporary

2022 - un/familiar exhibition @ oxmarket contemporary

2022 - oxmarket open exhibition @ oxmarket contemporary

2022 - southern ceramic group @ chichester cathedral

2022 - chichester arts trail

2019 - cardiff metropolitan university graduate exhibition

2019 - group exhibiton @ three doors up cardiff

2018 - vantage point ground exhibition @ made in roath cardiff

2018 - hapitic group exhibition @ three doors up cardiff

2018 - group exhibition @ ken straddling collection bristol
 

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education

2017-2019 ba(hons) ceramics - cardiff metropolitan university
2016-2017 art foundation degree

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contact

jasperthims@gmail.com

@jasperthims

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