Richard James was born in 1963, Northampton. He studied at Northampton School of Art (1980 - 84) and currently lives and works in Oundle, Northamptonshire.
This piece, De Curso Stellarum (2005), was purchased from his 2006 Hart Gallery show.
In 1603 Johann Bayer produced his Uranometria, a star atlas to “measure the sky”, reveal order and discover form in the void.
The act of plotting the “found positions” of the objects included in the works in Richard James’ Hart Gallery show was the beginning, a ritual mapping of the contours and waypoints defining the timeless spiritual landscape through which Life endlessly proceeds to Death.
Harsh geographies, restless places where sea and sky and earth jostle and collide, randomly sustaining or destroying the frail glimmerings of life that transit their incoherence – these are the temples in which the rituals are performed and the symbols revealed, from which the lost relics are recovered.
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