James Epps is an artist who works across collage, printmaking, sculpture and writing, exploring the slippage between text and image. Works fluctuate between legibility and illegibility. Materials, colour and language all operate together for the audience to navigate.
Education
PhD in Fine Art, Newcastle University (funded by AHRC), 2024 - present
MFA, Glasgow School of Art, 2021 - 2023
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Norwich University of the Arts, 2006 - 2009
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
A twist of the Hand, Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology, 2021
Off prompt, The Playhouse, Norwich, 2019
With an eye to, 13A St Augustine's Street, Norwich, 2016
Here on in, exterior wall painting on Eyre Lane, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, 2015
Just like that, OUTPOST, Norwich, 2014
Group Exhibitions
Hidden Door: Paper Factory Launch, Edinburgh, 2024
Members Show, Glasgow Print Studio, 2023
MFA Degree Show, Florence Street, Glasgow, 2023
Bus stop to horizon, wasteland to window, Langside, Pollokshields and Gorbals Libraries, Glasgow, 2022
MFA Interim Show, Glasgow School of Art, 2022
The Pleasure of the Page, Glasgow School of Art, 2022
Service, Stowe Building, Glasgow School of Art, 2021
Exhibiting Artists 5,4, Gildengate House, Norwich, 2021
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, TBW, London, 2018, TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth 2018, The Royal Drawing School Gallery, London, 2019, Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge, 2019
Kasa da Lava, collaboration with Robin Webb, Gildengate House, Norwich, 2019
December Mostra, British School at Rome, 2017
Members’ Show Selected by Andy Holden, OUTPOST, Norwich 2017
TAP Members' Show Selected by Tim Etchells and Vlatka Horvat, Southend on Sea, 2015
Factory Settings & Lookers, two-person show with Simon Newby, Unthank Artspace, Norwich, 2015
Oriel Davies Open 2014, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, 2014
NN Open Exhibition, Contemporary Art Northampton, 2013
Creekside Open, Selected by Paul Noble, London, 2013
The Thing In Between, Changing Spaces, Cambridge, 2012
Savorr V, 8 Redwell Street, Norwich, 2012
Salon Neu, Embassy Members’ Show, Edinburgh, 2012
Waterline, Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich, 2011
Point of Address, Members’ Show Selected by Peter Suchin, OUTPOST, Norwich, 2010
Presents, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, 2010
Expo 2010, Permanent Gallery, Brighton, 2010
Publications of Writing
| I did not want to interrupt the man who was not the optician: A love story, a pamphlet published by Short Pieces That Move, 2025 ‘Memorandum: to restore sites of conversation (the refectory has been delayed)’; ‘Interaction rituals’ and ‘Interruption’ in A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time, edited by Kate Briggs & Laura Haynes, published by The Yellow Paper, 2025 ‘Punctuation’ and ‘Shoelace Prompt’ in Caesura, edited by Kate Timney, Pala Press, 2024 ‘Artifice’; ‘Attempts to draw the shapes of smells’; ‘Glasgow Green’ and ‘Pack size: 1 x 5ltr’ in Smell Moves, an interactive publication about scent curated by Rose Bache, 2022 A twist of the hand, online exhibition with text and research images, Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology, 2021 |
Funding Awarded
Northern Bridge Large Grant for Primary Research, 2025
AHRC’s Northern Bridge Studentship Award, 2024
Hope Scott Trust Grant (collaborative project with Amy Kim Grogan), 2024
Creative Scotland, Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards, 2023
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice, 2020
Residencies
Northern Bridge Consortium (AHRC) Residential week-long trip at The British School at Rome, 2025
Augusta Scholar, British School at Rome, October-December 2017
Arts Council England, Escalator Retreat, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, 2011
Artist Talks
Reading from I did not want to interrupt the man who was not the optician: A love story, a pamphlet published by Short Pieces That Move, at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, 2025
Artists Tour, A pace, a foot, an elbow, a finger, coinciding with Superstructures at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 2018
Bloc Projects, Art Sheffield Tour, 2015
Additional links
James Epps, Glasgow Print Studio
A twist of the hand, Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology, 2021
Contact
epps88 [at] hotmail.co.uk