James R Ford – Artist
James R Ford is a conceptual artist whose work contemplates human needs and wants, absurdity in the everyday, and the search for meaning in art and life.
James R Ford is a conceptual artist whose work contemplates human needs and wants, absurdity in the everyday, and the search for meaning in art and life.
Ford (b. 1980) studied at Nottingham Trent University and then Goldsmiths College in England. He has exhibited widely in public, private and artist run spaces in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and further afield internationally.
Ford (b. 1980) studied at Nottingham Trent University and then Goldsmiths College in England. He has exhibited widely in public, private and artist run spaces in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and further afield internationally.
Ford's practice focuses on minimalist mark-making, text statements, assembled objects and looped short films. Works ranging from sporadic dots, to hand-painted idioms, to a dangling golden carrot.
