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James Eley Haldane Frew
James Frew is a visual artist and researcher based in Southampton and Glasgow. Coming from a background in painting, he has recently completed a practice-based Ph.D. at The Glasgow School of Art which explores the position of expanded painting practices and processes within a perpetually shifting new media art discourse, and how this has affected the formal translation of the painted gesture in a post-digital setting. As an active artist, academic and teacher, he is interested in the intersection between artistic practice and scholarly modes of material research. Specifically, Frew’s research explores the concept of the post-digital painted gesture in the age of the internet and social media, and how paint(ing) translates via traditional mediums and new media, through the process of using digital technologies. Accordingly, the painted gesture acts as a unit of categorizable information in his research, which can be translated into other modes of representation, forgoing its analogue materiality by investigating the manifold morphological aspects of expanded painting. He has exhibited widely in both solo and group shows and writes frequently on contemporary painting and culture.
Contact: OnCampus Southampton, Sir James Matthews Building, 157–187 Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7NN, UK.