Name: James Marcus Norman.
Address:
1 Leigh Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2DA. UK.
Education:
2012-15 The University of West of England, Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol.
BA (Hons) degree in Art and Visual Culture .
2012 Bristol School of Art, Queens Road Campus, Diploma in Fine Art and Design.
1972 MB ChB. Bristol University Medical School.
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 Proceed with Some Care. Photographique, Colston Avenue, Bristol.
2016 Overnight Delivery. The Ladies Room at the Edwardian Cloakrooms, Bristol Creative Spaces..
2010 The Monastic Life of Mount Athos. Photographic Documentary Exhibition at St Giles, Oxford.
2006 Work and Labour in Bangladesh. Photographic Documentary Exhibition at Charlotte Keel Health Centre, Easton, Bristol.
1993 Battle Fields of the Western Front. Photographic Documentary Exhibition at St Giles, Oxford.
Group Exhibitions:
2023 Crisis in Gratification, Centre Space Gallery, Leonard Lane, Corn St, Bristol. UWE Fine Art Grad Club.
2023 BV Open Studios
2022 BV Open Studios.
2022 Where There Is No More Music to Write, Spike island Bristol. Performance with Alvin Curran.
2021 Out of the Window, The Island Gallery, Conduit to the Cosmos, (painting), Types of Artists (video).
2021 The Coughing Choir, Spike Island Open, Broadcast on Spike F.M.
2020 Out of the Window, Group Show, Pithy Sayings Video, Centre Space Gallery, Bristol.
2020 New Balls Please,Collaboration with John Steed, Zoom presentation to The Artist Project Space, Bristol.
2020 For a Life Worth Living Mural, In collaboration with the Bristol Chilean Community, Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol.
2019 Quasi Religioso Banners, Glenside Hospital Museum, Fishponds, Bristol.
2019 The Bristol Pioneers, Collaborative video, Glenside Hospital Museum, Fishponds, Bristol. (permanent collection)
2019 Workshop Soundscape, Glenside Hospital Museum, Fishponds, Bristol. (permanent collection)
2019 Cosmic Fishing, Assistant Curator to Laura Bottin, Kosar Gallery, Bristol.
2019 Wild West Project, UWE Fine Art Degree Show, Bristol.
2019 BV Open. BV Studios, Bedminster, Bristol.
2019 You've got Five Minutes, Performance Collaboration with Andrew Hayes, Kosar Gallery, Bristol.
2018 Spaces Reimagined, Kosar Contemporary, Paradise Studios, Bristol.
2018 Echoes of Exclusion, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol. (Curator and Exhibitor)
2018 BV Open. BV Studios, Bedminster, Bristol.
2018 Production Production Production, Spike Associates Residency at the Tate Exchange, Blavatnik Tower, Tate Modern, London.
2018 I am making Art, with Production Production Production. Spike Island Cafe, Bristol.
2017 Tate Chronicles, Spike Associates Residency at the Tate Exchange, The Switch House, Tate Modern, London.
2017 The Record, Performance in collaboration with 600 Highwaymen, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol.
2017 Homeworks, Video,Pop up Show at Stokes Croft, Bristol
2016 Black and White, EBC010 Calendar, East Bristol Contemporary, Trinity Arts Centre, Bristol.
2016 Under Exchange, The Unit, The Arcade, Bristol.
2016 Under Construction The Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol.
2016 Parallels The Old Police Cells, The Island, Bristol.
2016 Come Play with us Danny: Short Film at Pop Up Cinema, Spike Island Open Studios.
2016 Uncanny Cans. BV Open Studios, Bedminster, Bristol.
2015 Episodes in Cultural Imperialism: The Democratic Republic of Free People(s). The Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol.
2015 New Cut. University of West of England Fine Art Studios.
2015 Wreckage. Spike Island Open. Bristol.
2015 You Know WHAT TO DO........ The Island, Bristol.
2015 ON. Performance and Video at the Southbank Club, Bristol.
2014 DO RE ME. Performance and Sound at Spike Island Studios, Bristol.
2014 Facade. The Benjamin Perry Boat House, Bristol.
2014 Transitions. The Old Woodshed, Bower Ashton.
2014 Kittens in the Basket. A Collaborative Performance with Edwina Ashton, Spike Island.
2014 Horse Anatomy. Spike Island Open, Bristol.
2014 Painting at the F Block. Bower Aston Art School, Bristol.
2014 Why Paint? The Old Police Station, Bristol.
2014 Repetition. The Crypt, Coronation Road, Bedminster, Bristol.
2013 The Wheelhouse. Spike Island Open, Spike Island, Bristol.
2013 Short Film: The Embryo Artist. Dir. Josh Jarman.
2012 Philadelphia Street Posse Exhibition, Philadephia St. Cabot Circus, Bristol.
Related Activities:
2019- Question of Art Seminar, UWE Fine Art Studios, Bristol.
2018-2020 Collaborative Project with Royal Society, Glenside Hospital Museum, Bristol.
2017-2021 Core member of The Artists Project Space, Kosar Gallery, Bristol.
2017 GP TIPS: Collaborative Seminar with BA Fine Art Students, University of West of England.
2017 Franz West Workshop: Objects with no Function. Chisenhale Studios, London. Two Day Residency.
2017 ...Is That Art Now. Seminar with the University of the Third Age, Bristol.
2016 Camera Feelies: An interactive Evening with James Norman's Russian Camera Collection. Spike Associates, Bristol.
2016 Hawser Arts Collaborative Residence at the Fellows Room, Spike Island, Bristol.
2016 Invited visiting speaker at "The Question of Art" forum. UWE Fine Art Degree Course.
2015- (current) Spike Associates Member.
2015-(current) Studio Holder, BV Studios, Bedminster, Bristol.
2015- (current) member of The Hawser Arts Collaborative, Bristol.
2015 Drawing Workshop Station, Radio Bristol at the Spike Island Cafe.
2014-2015 Co-ordinator for "The Question of Art" forum, UWE Spike Island Studios.
2015 Fine Art Degree Show, Corporate Liaison Fund Officer, Fund Raising Committee.
2013- 2020 Exhibition Invigilator at Spike Island Gallery.
Contact:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesmarcusnorman/
https://www.instagram.com/new.balls.please/
Mobile: 07890680444.
Email: http://[email protected]