JAMES W. NORTON / VISUAL ARTIST


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East Ham Level, mixed media on canvas


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I explore the transitions and convergences that occur between place, time and memory. I investigate these themes both theoretically and practically using different mediums and mark-making processes. I mainly work in paint, collage, film, audio, found material and site-specific installations to achieve both permanent and ephemeral results.

Landscape plays a pivotal role in my artwork as subject and context. There is always an open dialogue between the shifting dynamics of the past, present and future. Landscape is a place where multi-layered traces of meaning can exist at anyone time. It is a place that allows happenstance to intervene in the process of seeing, thinking and making.

I am drawn to the spaces in-between spaces, liminality, the periphery and what lies outside the edge. I seek out places that feel atmospheric, uncanny, disquieting, often derelict, altered, abandoned and in an entropic state. When woven together I use these elements to explore speculative narratives and experiment in creating new territories.


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