Biography
James P Graham has been working full time as an artist for ten years working principally in film, photography, drawing & sculpture. His first large scale work Iddu (2007) was made over 5 years on the landscape of the active volcano Stromboli in Italy and jointly funded through the Arts Council of England and the NESTA Foundation.
Mainly using landscape and nature, his work often references the now disused term ‘scientia sacra’, permeating chosen locations and objects with a metaphysical and ontological significance. As well as interpretating and re-creating notions of ‘sacred space’, his work is infused with ideas that derive from intuitive and ritualistic sources. The results can be enticingly intangible, and in some cases, totally immersive. Graham sites two important factors fundamental to his work. First, ‘intuition’, the catalyst behind the creation of every artwork, and second, ‘resonance’ the result of the work as expressed through the viewer.
