James Ireland
Born in 1977
Lives and works in London
Education
1996-99 Ruskin School of Fine Art, University of Oxford
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Solo project, Art-O-Rama, Marseille
2007
The difference between truth and honesty, f a projects, London
You Mistake My Horror For Love, Economist Building, London
2006
Zoo Art Projects, Zoo Art Fair, London
2005
Straight Lines Are Curves From Very Large Circles, f a projects
This Is a Test, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (cat.)
2003
All of the Known Universe, Spike Island, Bristol (cat.)
2002
f a projects, London
2001 How and Why, Symptom of the Universe, Manchester
Group Exhibitions
2008
Art on the underground: 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works, Rochelle School, London
Peace and Agriculture in a Pre-Romantic Ideal Landscape, Without Sublime Terrors, Haunch of Venison, Berlin
Material Presence: Sculpture and Installation from the Zabludowicz Collection, 176, London
These Valued Landscapes, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
Goggel pa jorden, curated by Cecilia Anderson, Galerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Diptychs, f a projects, London
2007
Beyond the Country: perspectives of the land in historic and contemporary art, Lewis Gluckman Gallery, Cork
Joke, Satire, Irony and Serious Meaning, European Triennial of Small-Size Sculpture, Gallery of Murska Sobota, Slovenia
To The Left Of The Rising Sun, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Super-Sampling Anti-Aliased, Dreizehnzwei, Vienna
ArtFutures, Bloomberg Space, London
2006
Uncanny Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Fantasy Island, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
2005
Fabriques du Sublime, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec
Scape, CAC (Contemporary Art Centre), Vilnius, Lithuania
Zoo Portfolio 2005, curated by David Thorpe, Zoo Art Fair, London
2004
Into My World: Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (cat.)
Paradise Garden, Nottingham Castle
Collage, Bloomberg Space
Selected Sculpture, MW Projects, London
2003
Rough Typography, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
Out of Place, Harewood House (travelled to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Friction, London Print Studio
2002
From a Distance, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Nothing to Lose, Galerie Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Viewfinder, Arnolfini, Bristol
Species of Spaces, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
Unscene, Gasworks Gallery, London
2001
Faith In Fakes, The Place, Letchworth
Double Take, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
All Of My Heart, Arte E Personae, Florence
2000
A Square Of Ground, Jerwood Gallery, London
Perspective 2000, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
New Contemporaries 2000, Milton Keynes Gallery; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Inverleith House, Edinburgh
How we built the world, Hanover Galleries, Liverpool, curated by James Ireland
1999
Big Warm Open, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery
Residencies
Spike Island, Bristol
La Friche, Marseilles
Publications
2006 Uncanny Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Chris Townsend, New Art from London, Thames and Hudson, London
2005
This is a Test, Angel Row Gallery Scape, Triangle, France
2004
Into My World - Recent British Sculpture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
2003
All Of The Known Universe, Spike Island
2002 Shimmering Substance/Viewfinder, Arnolfini
2000 Perspective 2000, Ormeau Baths Gallery New Contemporaries 2000, New Contemporaries Ltd
Selected Bibliography
2007
Eliza Williams, ‘James Ireland: The Difference between Truth and Honesty’, Art Monthly, November 07
Martin Holman, 'Sight Specifics: the taking of Precinet SWIA1HG', Miser & Now, August 2007
Jamie Shovlin, Artists Notebooks: Jamie Shovlin on James Ireland, Art on Paper, Jul/Aug 2007
Mark Rappolt, ‘James Ireland: You Mistake My Horror for Love’, ArtReview, July/Aug 2007
2006
Ossian Ward, ‘Stampede at the Zoo: Major collectors descend on the Frieze satellite fair’, The Art Newspaper, Frieze Art Fair Friday 13 October
‘Top 20’, City Weekly, September 21
Sebastian Smee, ‘Dot complimentary’, The Weekend Australian, September 9-10
‘Melbourne in Trouble’, Trouble, August
Ashley Crawford, ‘Uncanny Nature’, The Age, Melbourne, September 3
‘Uncanny Nature’, Trouble, August
‘Uncanny Nature’, The Sunday Age, Melbourne, August 20
‘Uncanny Nature’, The Age, Melbourne, August Martin Herbert, 'Fantasy Island', Art Monthly, March
2005
Andrew Marsh, 'Straight Lines Are Curves From Very Large Circles', Flash Art, November-December Gemma De Cruz, ‘New Landscapes at London’s FA Projects’, Collective, 22 September
‘This Is a Test at Angel Row Gallery’, [A-N] Magazine, June
Richard Clark, ‘This Is a Test’, Guardian Guide, 21 – 27 May
Wayne Burrows, ‘Nature In a Package’, Metro, 20 May
2004
Grace Glueck, The New York Times, August 27
‘Love in the 21st Century’, L.P. Streitfeld, Greenwich Time, August 15
‘Across the Water’ Art Monthly, June
‘"Into My World: Recent British Sculpture” at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield’, Fairfield Citizen News, June 18
Susan Tuz, ‘Edgy British art will open Aldrich’, The News-Times, May 18
Martin Herbert, ‘Into My World: Recent British Sculpture’, Artforum, May
2003
Roy Exley, ‘James Ireland – Spike Island’, FLASH ART October
‘Bristol: Spike Island – James Ireland’, Contemporary, May
Louise Coysh, ‘James Ireland’, [A-N] Magazine, January
2002
Alicia Miller, ‘James Ireland’, Art Monthly, December
Charlotte Edwards, ‘Practice to Deceive’, Art Review, November
JJ Charlesworth, ‘Viewfinder’, Contemporary, September
Martin Herbert, ‘Viewfinder’, Art Monthly, September
Jack Foley, ‘The Conceptual Negotiation of Space’, indielondon.co.uk, July
Jane Tyman, ‘Unscene’, Time Out London, 24 April
Jessica Lack, 'Unscene', Guardian Guide, 30 March
Helen Sumpter, 'Unscene', Hot Tickets, 4 April
'Unscene', Modern Painters, Summer
2001
Sarah Lowndes, 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries', Metro, January
2000
Keith Patrick, 'Contemporary Landscapes', Contemporary Visual Arts, December
Ruth Jones, 'Perspective 2000', [A-N] Magazine, November
Jonathan Jones, 'I've seen the future and it irks', The Guardian, 20 June
William Packer, 'A return to the student jamboree', The Financial Times, to June
Richard Dorment, 'From with to witlessness', The Daily Telegraph, 28 June
David Beech, 'New Contemporaries 2000', Art Monthly, October
Louise Coysh, 'New Contemporaries 2000', [A-N] Magazine
James Hopkin, 'New Contemporaries 2000', The Guardian, October
Iain Gale, 'Hit, miss and maybe', Caledonia, January