JAMES LOMAX

Launch night: Wednesday 30th August 2023

Online launch: Thursday 31st August 2023

Particular Ideas are delighted to announce the launch of the limited-edition digital c-type print, counter relief I, by James Lomax. The photograph is of a wrapped building site and is overlaid with Lomax’s interlaced motif, two architectural boundaries overlapped, amplifying Lomax’s sculptural language.

James Lomax frequently repurposes and reframes found objects by altering their material composition or their intended use. From collecting disused materials from construction sites and reimagining them as paintings or replicating luxury goods store cardboard boxes in cast concrete, Lomax raises political issues and highlights particular facets of modern society. His work has a particular interest in institutional critique, exhibition production, and site-responsive interventions, with a significant art historical influence on his practice.

The edition is accompanied by an essay by Craig Burnett, author of Philip Guston: The Studio and Director of Pilar Corrias. Click here to read.

James Lomax (1991, UK) lives and works in London. Lomax graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2022. He has undertaken residencies at Ikon Gallery, The New Art Gallery Walsall, The Henry Moore Institute and Studio Block M74 Mexico City.  Selected exhibitions include: Unbound Material, Sid Motion Gallery, London, UK, Unprecedented Times, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2022), Absurd, OHSH Projects, London, UK (2022), Modern Relics, Fold Gallery, London, UK( 2022), and Flatten & Collapse, Recent Activity, London, UK (2022). Lomax is a participant in Chester Contemporary, curated by Ryan Gander.

Particular Ideas is a contemporary arts enterprise that collaborates with artists on exhibitions, special projects and limited-edition artworks. 

Print studio: Dot Imaging

Photography: Dead Zebra

Framing: Jack Carvosso Studio - framing spec available on request.

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