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Selected Member of The Royal Society of Sculptors 2020

Jim Roseveare MRSS

Sculpture | Installation | Video

6 Conqueror Rd, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex TN38 8DD +44 7939 340345 | jamesroseveare@aol.com www.jamesroseveare.com

Artist Profile

A Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS) since 2020, my practice explores the complex, unstable relationship between culture and landscape. My perspective is uniquely shaped by over 40 years of experience in arboriculture, spent negotiating the space between a chainsaw and a living tree. This multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, video, and performance, utilising these mediums to engage with form, function, and the temporal processes of decay and change often through the lens of absurdity.

Education

1998 | BA (First Class Hons) Photography, London College of Communication
1985 | Nat. Dip. Arboriculture, Askham Bryan College, York

Selected Solo Exhibitions & Residencies

2022 | SN10222, blackShed Gallery (ACE Funded Residency), Robertsbridge, East Sussex
2018 | Tree Sense, Arts for Health Residency (with Boyd & Evans), Milton Keynes
2016 | Stelae for Foreign Bodies, Elements Gallery Residency, London
2015 | Field, Farley Farm House Sculpture Garden, Chiddingly
2011 | Fish Stock, Coastal Currents Spotlight, The Stade Project Space, Hastings
2004 | The Florence Trust Residency, The Florence Trust, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Messages from a Silent River, Ground_Collective, Hypha Studios, 1 Poultry Lane, London
Sex and Success in Sussex, Electro Studios, Hastings
10 Year Celebration, Project78, Hastings (Invited Artist)

2024

Do we still need the Green Man?, blackShed Gallery, Robertsbridge
upSCALE, Project78, Hastings

2023

Uncertain Edges, Ground_Collective, Electro Studios, Hastings
Documents, Gallery Dodo, Brighton

2022

In Harmony, Broomhill Sculpture Park, Royal Society of Sculptors, North Devon
Catch your Breath, The London Group, Waterloo Festival, London
Hulabhaig Winter Open, Hulabhaig Gallery, Isle of Lewis

2021

EMERGENCY 2021, ASPEX Gallery, Portsmouth (Shortlisted)
Can we ever know the meaning of these objects, Gallery 46, London
Coming up for Air, The London Group, Waterloo Festival, London

2020

Hastings Open 2020, Hastings Museum, East Sussex
Hulabhaig Uig Open, Hulabhaig Gallery, Isle of Lewis

2019

Miniscule, 58th Venice Biennale, F Sant’Anna 996 Castello, Venice
Liminality4, Gallery46 (with Jake Chapman), London
Empire II: After Extinction, Museo MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico
Four legs good, two legs bad, Q Park, Leicester Sq, London

2018

Sweep-Landskip (with Derek Jarman & Peter Joseph), Kinokino, Sandnes, Norway
Protocol (Frieze Week), Q Park, Cavendish Square, London
Nothing Endures but Change, The London Group, Waterloo Festival, London

2008 – 2017 (Selected)

Empire II (Touring Exhibition), 57th Venice Biennale; Tallinn; Madrid; Paris; Mexico
Speedway (with Andrew Kotting & Luci Eyers), Transition Gallery, London
Le Voci Rotrovate Residency, Corigliano d’Otranto, Italy
Strarta Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London
Art in Romney Marsh, Folkestone Triennial Fringe, Kent
The 18th Istanbul Art Fair, Tuyap, Istanbul, Turkey
East Sussex Open, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

Awards & Professional Recognition Publications

2020 | Elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS)
2013 | Best Overall Artist, Pure Arts (Selected by Tony Penrose)
2009 | Selected Artist, International Art Symposium, Patras, Greece
2004 | Florence Trust Resident Artist, London

Publications

2011 Arts No. 31 , Dr Khaled Alhamzeh, Prof Hist of Art and Architecture, Yarmouk Uni, Jordan)

2016 Tate Etc Issue 36. Robert Mcfarlane on British Landscape (Andrew Kotting)

2017 Garageland Art, culture and ideas Issue 21: Urban Ghosts

Professional Memberships & Commissions

Member: Royal Society of Sculptors
Collective: Ground_Collective
Technical Skills: Professional Arboriculture (40+ years), Large-scale site-specific installation, experimental video production, and sculptural casting.