Mind How You Go, artwork by James Chapman, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, 2025 — *Mind How You Go*, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London (2025)

James Chapman's work concerns how meaning passes between people through language, objects, and the systems of record and of control that hold us to account. Working across printmaking, text, augmented reality and installation, he makes durational, participatory pieces about memory, obligation, and the pressures under which people act.

Biography

Born in England, where he lives and works.

Founding member of nomer art collective since 2023.¹

Solo exhibition

1993 Out of the Blue, Metro Cinema Gallery, London, UK

Group exhibitions

2026 Paper Jam, BOTH Gallery, London, UK²
2026 Cosmic Composting, City Lit Gallery, London, UK
2025 Traces, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, UK³
2025 Ticky Tacky, City Lit Gallery, London, UK
2025 Reverse Process Manifest, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
2024 Material, Midpoint Gallery, Kythira, Greece
2024 Open House, Gatehouse Chambers, London, UK
2023 Traces, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, UK
2023 10/2, City Lit Gallery, London, UK
2023 Re-Imagine, WappArt Gallery, London, UK⁴
2022 Many Things At Once, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK
2022 Together, City Lit Gallery, London, UK
1996 Pulse Art, 494 Gallery, New York, US⁵
1996 Shelter, Landhuis Wolfslaar, Breda, NL⁶
1995 Graduate Show, Middlesex University, London, UK
1994 Germinations 8, Biennale Européenne des jeunes artistes, De Beyerd, Breda, NL⁷
1993 Brassiere, Marylebone High St., London, UK
1993 OUTFEST: Film Festival, Director's Guild of America, Los Angeles, US
1993 FASTFORWARD!, London Film-Makers Co-op, London, UK
1993 Art in Time Festival, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK

Collections

UCLA Film & Television Archive, US — Act of Faith (1993), inventory m113166, Outfest UCLA Legacy Project⁸
Private collections in the United Kingdom and Greenland

Publications

A Book of Blood, A Book of Ashes, A Book of Tears, James Chapman (2026). ISBN 9781066749904⁹
Germinations 8, Peeters & Wegmann (1994)
The Sphinx Magazine, University of Liverpool (1987)

Education

Developing Art Practice (DAP), City Literary Institute, London, 2025
City Lit Fine Art (CLFA), City Literary Institute, London, 2023
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Middlesex University London, 1995

References

nomer art collective, founding member since 2022. City Lit Q&A, citylit.ac.uk; on Instagram. ↩
Paper Jam, BOTH Gallery, London (2026). bothgallery.com. ↩
Traces 2025, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (2025). Organised by nomer art collective; listing at towerhamletsarts.org.uk. ↩
Re-Imagine, WappART, London (2023). artrabbit.com. ↩
Pulse Art, 494 Gallery, New York (1996). Project documentation, sharidiamond.net. ↩
Shelter, Landhuis Wolfslaar, Breda (1996). Catalogue record, bibliotheek.nl. ↩
Germinations 8, De Beyerd, Breda (1994). Fundament Foundation, artfacts.net. ↩
Act of Faith (1993). UCLA Film & Television Archive, Outfest Legacy Project holdings list, inventory m113166, ucla.box.com. ↩
A Book of Blood, A Book of Ashes, A Book of Tears (2026). ISBN 9781066749904, bookfinder.com. ↩

Connect

Instagram: @jameschapman.art
Email: contact [at] jameschapman [dot] art

Also indexed at Wikidata and ORCID.

James Chapman - Interdisciplinary Artist, London