James R Ford
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Born: Frimley, England
Lives: London, England
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2004 - 2005
PG Dip Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1999 - 2002
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
1998 - 1999
Foundation Art & Design, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, UK
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2010
Smash N Tag, Taranaki Street, Wellington, NZ
Filling the Voids, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2009
Too Orangey For Crows, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Only Boring People Get Bored, FERREIRA PROJECTS, London, UK
2008
Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes, FERREIRA PROJECTS, London, UK
2004
Backseat Tuna Town, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge, UK
2003
Crème Brulee: The art of House Gymnastics, Northern Lights Gallery, Bristol, UK; Brahm Gallery, Leeds, UK
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2010
Geometry Is Never Wrong, W+K, London, UK
At Play 2, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK
Spreading Blankets on the Beach, JJ Morgan & Co, Wellington, NZ
2009
Summer Group Show, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Encounters with Scale, Portman Gallery, London, UK
Sale, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK
2008
Irregular Pulse, FERREIRA PROJECTS, London, UK
PURE_drawing+illustration, FERREIRA PROJECTS, London, UK
2007
Designersblock @ 100% Design Tokyo, Jingu Gaien, Tokyo, Japan
Stick*Stamp*Fly, Gasworks, London, UK
4C: SightSeeing Tour, GUM Factory, Saatchi & Saatchi, London, UK
Driven, Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK
Extreme Crafts, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Feel Good Feel Bad Boys and Girls, Lange Gasse 28, Ausberg, Germany
2006
GIFT, Museum MAN, Liverpool, UK
Your Gallery@The Guardian, The Guardian Newsroom Gallery, London, UK
Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Knock Down Ginger, MyHouse Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Kitson Kaleidoscope, Kitson Road, London, UK
Terrible Toy Fair III, CBGB Art Gallery, New York, USA
Another Product - Britishness, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2005
Never Finished, Always Ready, 75 Brushfield Street, London, UK
Bound_less, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
2004
Pictoplasma Conference, Cafe Moskau, Berlin, Germany
Exhibit.001 (Nth-Art), Ols $ Co Gallery, London, UK
2003
Re-Form, The Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Trailing Cables, PEA Gallery & 291 Gallery, London, UK
Disposable Generation, Bridlesmith Gate Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Made@Home, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
2002
Blueprint, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2001
Starbucks, Sex and Space Invaders, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Curried Trout, The Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, UK
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2010
Amery, M., FORD V NISSAN, The Dominion Post (NZ), 22 July
Meehan, P., James R Ford: Smash N Tag, Jotta Magazine, 20 July
Pulverised car as art, The Dominion Post (NZ), 19 July
Fox, M., Bertos keen to join in on revenge demolition of car, The Dominion Post (NZ), 06 July
2009
Culture Check, The Dominion Post (NZ), 26 August
Hunter, A., REVIEW: Only Boring People Get Bored, Art Journal Online, 4 March
Essential things to see and do this month, Grafik, Issue no.171, March
Recommended exhibitions this month, Art World, UK/Int'l Edition - Issue 9, Feb / Mar
News in Pictures, Design Week, 22 January
2008
London for Free: James R Ford, Metro (London), 24 April
Essential things to see and do this month, Grafik, Issue no.161, April
2007
Pick of the Month - 4C: SightSeeing Tour, Creative Review, August
2006
Maynard, G., I stuck 4,342 toy cars on my old motor, Daily Express, 27 November
Phillips, A., From Ford Capri to General Lee, Southwark News, 7 September
Denes, M., Curate your own exhibition, The Guardian (G2), 6 September
Wilson, J., The art of smoking, LeftLion Magazine, Issue no.10, Spring
Eisele, K., Mex sport: House Gymnastics, Mex magazine (Switzerland), April
2005
Pepper, T., Making their own breaks, Newsweek International, 26 Sep - 3 Oct
Marchen, J., Hjemmefitness, Berlingske Tidende newspaper (Denmark), 9 April
2004
Hughes, G., Bogey Ball, Bizarre Magazine, Issue no.89, August
Perbos, L., Blanco, S., Latherrade, F., Do it Yourself, Buy-Sellf, Issue no.4 (France), May
Hearn, K., Chocolate starfish goes online, BBC-i Beds, Herts and Bucks (www.bbc.co.uk), published online 18 March
Poulson, A., But is it art?: General Carbuncle, Dazed&Confused, March
2003
Adams, T., Tips for a happy new you, The Observer, 28 December
Shields, A., Frothy table reading, Time Out London, 10-17 December
Eyre, H., How extreme is your house?, The Independent on Sunday, 07 December
The Most Remarkable things in Culture this Month, Esquire Magazine, December
The World in Pictures, Hello! Magazine, Issue no.784, 30 September
Moore, C., The Spectator's Notes, The Spectator, 13 September
Wood, L., How to muscle in at home, Metro Newspaper, 19 August
Zweifel, P., Don't try this at home: Jackass in the Living room, 20 Minuten Newspaper, Basel, Switzerland, 7 May
Kwok, D., Inside the World of House Gymnastics, Tablet Newspaper, Seattle, USA, Issue no.66, April
Jenkins, W., Driving me up the wall, Dazed&Confused, February
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2005 AHRC Postgraduate Award
2004 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, East Midlands x 2
2003 Winner - Net Art Category - Third Place Gallery/Playstation2 Award
2003 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, East Midlands
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ARTIST CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS
2008
Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes, FERREIRA PROJECTS, UK
2004
House Gymnastics, Random House/Ebury Press, UK
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2007
4C: SightSeeing Tour, GUM Factory, UK
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2008, Random House Books, UK
Gross and disgusting things about the human body, Blue Bike Books, Canada
2006
GROK: An Introduction to New Media Art, Interactive CD-ROM, Rhizome.org
2005
The 505 weirdest online stores, Sourcebooks, North America
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