James Thompson

Profile

I am an artist, lecturer, and practice-based PhD researcher. My research explores architectural spaces in transition, often between states of redevelopment and ruin. I work across sculpture, moving image, and site-responsive performance, using documentation as both method and outcome to reveal hidden histories and explore alternative futures.

My practice is grounded in responding to material and spatial conditions through iterative making and on-site exploration. This process-oriented approach allows the work to evolve through interconnected cycles of action, reflection, and reconfiguration. My current research contributes to emerging understandings of how artistic practice can document, reinterpret, and critically engage with the shifting fabric of post-industrial cities. It explores expanded forms of multimedia site-specific casting in response to the loss of artistic place and the dislocation of artist communities as a result of urban regeneration.

Research interests

Research interests include the expanded field of sculpture, site-responsive making, documentation as art practice, multimedia casting, place-based participation, artist-led histories in the post-industrial city, and the generation and reperformance of archives.

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Qualifications

• Fellow Higher Education Academy
• PGCert in Lifelong Learning, University of Huddersfield
• MA RCA Design Products, Royal College of Art
• BA (Hons) Three-Dimensional Design, Leeds College of Art