CV

Shelley James
23 Royal York Crescent
Bristol BS8 4JX

email shelley@shelleyjames.co.uk
telephone 0789 4206336
website www.shelleyjames.co.uk

Education
2018 City and Guilds Electrical Installations 2365-03 (due to complete on 20 July 2018)
City and Guilds Electrical Installations 2365-02
City and Guilds In-service Inspection of Electrical Equipment 2377-22
2009-2014 Royal College of Art, London: PhD by practice in glass
2003-2007 UWE, Bristol: MA multidisciplinary printmaking (distinction)
1984-1988 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris: Diplome Textiles (merit)

Employment
December 2017 – present Freelance lighting design, installation and PAT testing
December 2016 – present Visiting lecturer, Royal College of Art
May 2016 – present Artist Associate, King’s College, London
February 2016 – present Artist Associate, Institute of Philosophy, University of London
Jan 2015 – present Visiting tutor, Institute of Making, UCL
Oct 2014 – present Mentor, Crafts Council Parallel Practices Programme
Sept 2006 – present Artist in Residence, Bristol Eye Hospital
Nov 2005 – present Wellcome Trust Image Library
March-July 2016 Artist in Residence, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, King’s College, London
2008 -2009 Artist in Residence, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
2005 - 2008 Research Fellow, University of the West of England, Bristol
2003 - 2005 Technical instructor, University of the West of England, Bristol
Visiting artist, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
1996 to 2003 Senior Account Director, Imagination design agency, London
1994 to 1996 Account Manager, Coley Porter Bell design agency, London
1992 to 1994 Business development manager, The Partners design agency, London
1988 to 1990 Freelance identity consultant, Visa International, San Francisco.
1983 to 1988 Freelance illustrator, Paris

Selected exhibitions, installations and commissions

2018
FutureFest VIP launch, lighting design and installation
Royal Academy Summer Late, lighting design and installation
Royal College of Art MA show, lighting design and installation
Gasworks Gallery Residency, electrical installation
ICMS Conference on Quasiperiodic Symmetry, lecture and installation
Through the looking glass: Louis Pasteur and mirror symmetry, exhibition and public workshop, Bush House
London and Gordon Museum, London
Art of Symmetry, workshops, V&A, London
Urban Vision: architectural glass commission, Bristol
Make:Shift conference, lecture and masterclass, Crafts Council of Ireland, Dublin

2017
Make:Shift lecture, Crafts Council, Dublin
V&A Digital Design Weekend, lecture, London
European Visual Science of Art Annual Conference, exhibition, Berlin
Royal Society Summer Exhibition, public engagement, London
Ruskin Prize, exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
Knowledge Exchange, performance and discussion, collaboration with Sir Michael Berry, Somerset House, London
Crystalline Constellations, Project Space solo glass and light installation, Collect 2017, Saatchi Gallery, London

2016
Resonant Spaces, performance, Leeds
V&A Digital Design weekend, public engagement activity, London
Stepping out, commission. Lingelbach Scheune, Munich
Paths to Utopia, exhibition and public engagement activity, Somerset House, London
Critic’s Circle Award for Art and Architecture, commission, London
Art of glass, schools workshop and exhibition, Bow Arts, London

2015
Gaze, solo exhibition and performance, Circus Gallery, London
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, performance, Huddersfield
Future Heritage Foundation commission, ‘Decorex 2015’, London
Shifting Ground, installation, Liverpool University (ECVP)
‘Catching the Light’ public engagement, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
Essences, group exhibition, London Glassblowing Studio, London,
London British Glass Biennale, group exhibition, Stourbridge
Collect 2015, exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, London

2014
What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, Fine Art Society, London
MRC Centenary ‘DNA and crystallography’, exhibition, Gordon Museum of Natural History, London
Resonant Spaces, collaboration and performance, University of Leeds
Crystal symmetries I and II, exhibitions, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Between the lines, solo exhibition, Hospital Club, London
UK Glass, group exhibition, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium
Figure-Ground installation, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bristol
Illusions group exhibition and international tour curated by the Science Gallery, Dublin
Royal Society Summer Exhibition, London
Essential Symmetries, Jerwood Makers Award, commission and national tour

2013
Artist in Residence, Corning, New York
Illusions group exhibition and international tour Science Gallery, Dublin
National Portrait Gallery shorts, ‘glass 1-5’, video installation
Alvin Lucier performance for solo cellist with glass vessels, University of Leeds
Space in glass: perspectives in print, Hockney Gallery, RCA London
Ceramic Art London, Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA London
MRC Centenary Exhibition: from DNA to the Brain, Inigo Rooms, Somerset House, London
Action Potential, interdisciplinary performance, Bate Museum of Musical Instruments, Oxford
Resonant spaces, exhibition and public engagement, Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
RE Open, Royal Society of Painter Printmaker exhibition, London
Peter Layton Summer Show, London Glassblowing Studio
Festival of Nature commission for Bristol University, Bristol
Trauma exhibition and panel discussion, GV Art Gallery, London
Ceramic Art London exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
Nature Nurture, public engagement, Bristol Royal Infirmary Children’s Hospital

2011
Nature Nurture architectural glass commission, Bristol Eye Hospital
Through a glass, Crafts Council handling collection commission
Faith, purchased by Sunderland Museum Glass Collection
Ceramic Art London exhibition, RCA London
Breathtaking Crafts Council national touring exhibition
Selection of other outputs: Publications, presented papers, broadcast media

BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour discussion of craft and glass (November 2016)
Make:Shift Conference, presentation of Parallel Practices Residency (November 2016)
Society of Glass Technology conference presentation of recent research (September 2016)
Utopia Festival, Somerset House, presentation of recent research (August 2016)
Patternity, a new way of seeing, featured artwork (2015)
IPerception journal (papers presented at the Lingelbach Scheune, August 2014): ‘Illusions and allusions’
Impact 08 conference, August 2013, Dundee, Scotland. ‘Op Art and Mechanical Reproduction,’ journal publication
Impact 07 conference, August 2012, Canberra, Australia, ‘Moving pictures, print in glass’ journal publication
BBC World Service interview for ‘Science in Action’ programme 2013, ‘from DNA to the Brain’
European Conference on Visual Perception, August 2013 and 2015, poster and exhibitions
Narratives in healthcare, AHRC Cultural exchange, Tsinghua University, Beijing 2012