James Hankey

  • Walking still: a drifting pursuit
  • We are a satellite
  • Some Pigeons Are Warmer Than Others
  • First Step
  • In search of the Immortal Game
  • A Light Interference
  • Site and Seed
  • The Impossible Spectator
  • We've chosen here
  • Jostling for an event
  • Buried Meles meles berried
  • The Dark Rooms
  • Layered Curiosities
  • Broken/Fixed
  • Fixed/Broken
  • Entanglement
  • C.V. and Contact
© 2011 - 2023

C.V. and Contact

 

Education

– MA in Art and Environment, Falmouth University, 2011-2013

– BA  Photography, University College Falmouth, 2003-06

– Foundation in Art & Design, Arts Institute at Bournemouth, 2002-03 

 

Selected Exhibitions

– Unbounded, Eden Project, Cornwall, November 2019 – January 2020

– Goonhilly Village Green, Goonhilly Downs, Lizard, May 2019

– Retreat : This is not a holiday, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham, 2018

– Craft School, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall 2017

– Site and Seed, Picture Room, Newlyn Art gallery, 2016

– On St Michael’s Way, 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London, 2016

– Weather Station 2, B-side Festival, Portland, Dorset, 2016

– Walking still, raft displayed at Tremenhere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance, 2016-17

– Walking still: a drifting pursuit, part of ‘The Wanderers’, Falmouth 2015

– Inland Art Festival, Redruth,  2014

– In the Absence of Archives, Falmouth University, 2014

– Drawing a Presence, Newlyn Art Gallery, 2014

– First Eleven, CAST, Cornwall, 2013

– Suspended Sentences, Turners Warehouse, Newlyn,  2013

– Limbo, The Old Coffin Store, Truro, 2013

– The Dark Rooms, CAST, Cornwall, 2013

– An Exercise in Failure, Son Gallery, Peckham, 2011

– SuperNature, View Art Gallery, Bristol, 2009

– Offsite: inside, Newlyn Art Gallery, 2008

– Layered Curiosities, Embark: Ferry Art 2007, King Harry Ferry, April 07. Solo show as part of ‘Embark 07’

– Landscape, Photography and Film, Peckham, 2007

 

Commissions/projects

– We are a satellite, Some Pigeons Are Warmer Than Others, working alongside Goonhilly Heritage Society (GHS) and Goonhilly Earth Station to produce 16mm and video works in an installation for Goonhilly Village Green, Goonhilly Downs, Lizard, May 2019

– Walking still: a drifting pursuit, commissioned by Field Notes – performance, photographs and text piece for part of ‘The Wanderers’ publication and series of events, Falmouth 2015

– Line/Trace, Drawing a Presence, 2014. Commissioned to collaborate with Wherrytown skateboarders in Penzance, Cornwall.

 

Workshops

– Visualising Waveforms, for Goonhilly Village Green. Workshop about visualising EM waves, in abandoned WW11 radar bunker using light and long exposure photography. Introduction with help from Robin Ridge- member of GHS.

– Focal Point -Light and mirrors, 2 day workshop experimenting with focal points, reflections, image making and projection,  Tate Circuit Group, Tate St Ives, 2016

– Cyanotype, Pinhole and large format camera workshops, Newlyn School of Art, 2014-present

 

Publications and web articles

On St Michael’s Way, edited by Janet McEwan, 2016

The Wanderers, Field Notes and Medium Rare, 2015

Revolver, edited by Volker Stox and Jesse Leroy Smith, 2008

Lyndhurst Way – A year of exhibitions, edited by Hannah Barry, Ex Why Zed, 2007

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/3933778

http://www.artcornwall.org/features/Tales_of_the_Unexpected.htm

http://www.artcornwall.org/exhibitions/solarize.htm

 

Contact

jameshankey84@gmail.com

+44 (0)7947836172