James Feraciour

James Feraciour


About

I am fascinated by subjectivity, temporality and the limitations of human perception. My work explores and celebrates these themes and their emotional correlates through the indexical application of colour and line.

The practice exists in the creation of icons, monuments, memos and totems, utterances and observations, experiential markers, witnesses to the moments of my life, slices of personal history as momentary refractions of the human condition. I hope to convey a deep appreciation for the immensity of existence and the potentiality of consciousness.

Typically, each piece emerges over the course of weeks, months, sometimes years, so it becomes a practice in itself, a ritual, a reflection, and a meditation on what it means to be. Each completed piece is an immersion in the present, a rich evocation of the experience of being, and a material celebration of the beauty of presence, awareness, engagement, life.

If you wish to contact me, you can do so here:

jamesferaciour [at] gmail.com
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Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Work
My process always starts with a sense, an intuition, a question or enquiry which I'm unable to verbalise, so I create.

I choose my palette from the colours available in my personal stock of digital photographs. The palette is selected on a purely aesthetic basis, looking for those colours which most closely match the feelings which prompted my initial enquiry. I then mix directly onto my selected medium, to create new colour combinations.

I use Microsoft Paint principally for colour composition and arrangement, as I enjoy working within the functional limitations which it creates.

The exercise of creating takes the form of a gestural and indexical dialogue as I and the emergent piece interact over the course of weeks and months, the conversation taking on new nuances and connotations as it evolves and elucidates - the entire process becoming a form of meditation, reflection and release.

My initial work consists of selecting and arranging colours in broad blocks, followed by careful observation in order to learn what these colour combinations are telling me. I then use this information to inform my next move. With the beginnings of a dialogue in place, I then repeatedly experiment, developing and elaborating patterns, contexts and details over time, until the piece speaks coherently on its own, with no further prompting.

I'm often asked if the detail work is tedious. Although it is intense, I actually find it both relaxing and rewarding, as it eventually transforms the piece from an enquiry, into a visually enlightening response to my initially frustrated verbalisation.
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Education
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Education

BA (Joint Hons) Communication and Cultural Studies with Public Media, Leeds Trinity

Selected Competitions, Awards and Honours

2012 Long Stories for Perm: Perm Museum of Modern Art, Perm, Russia
2012 Shape Open 2012: Shape, Greenwood Place, London, UK (Finalist)
2012 LACDA International 2012: Los Angeles Centre For Digital Art, Los Angeles, USA
2012 Woolgather Art Prize: Oak House, Park Lane, Leeds, UK
2012 The Kress Project: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, USA (Winner)

Selected Publications

2012 Woolgather: You Are Here #42. Published by Woolgather, Leeds, UK
2012 Design Week: You Are Here #7, Leeds. Published by Centaur Media, London, UK
2012 Rhythm / Rytmi: Bebop; Dance; Skate. Published by HESA Inprint, Helsinki, Finland
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Bells

Painting

James Feraciour
United Kingdom
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Assurance

Painting

James Feraciour
United Kingdom
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Autumn

Painting

James Feraciour
United Kingdom
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Antiquity

Painting

James Feraciour
United Kingdom
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Bank

Painting

James Feraciour
United Kingdom
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Apartment

Painting

James Feraciour
United Kingdom
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Belief
You Are Here #23 (California)
You Are Here #7 (Leeds)
Bar
Barley
Argument
Awakening

Events & Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Selected

2013 Intangible Transportations: ISE, NYC, USA
2013 Divided We Fall: St John's, Leeds, UK
2013 Our House: Enjoy, Leeds, UK
2013 Intangible Transportations: Arts East New York, NYC, USA

2012 Threadz: AENY, NYC, USA
2012 By Royal Appointment: The Mall, London, UK
2012 6x6x2012: Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NYC, USA
2012 Shape Open: Portobello Gallery, London, UK
2012 Northern Arts Uncovered: Leeds Gallery, Leeds, UK
2012 It's A Small, Small World: Family Business, NYC, USA
2012 Wet Paint: Enjoy, Leeds, UK
2012 Objects of the Gaze, Explorations of the Fetish: Seven, Leeds, UK
2012 Linear Progression: Shine, Leeds, UK
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