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About Me:: James Johnson-Perkins is an international artist based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. He has recently toured Hal 9000, with ART EXPO, to major art spaces in the USA, Spain, Romania and Lithuania. Including the Long Island Digital Media Festival at The IMAC Cimema, New York. He has solo shows in 2008 at Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, Red Gallery, Hull, UK and The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Hal 9000 will feature at ART EXPO, Moscow Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia in February. Johnson-Perkins is also a Selected Artist on the International Artist Exchange Progam, Teknologi Mara University, Malaysia in July.

Johnson-Perkins' artwork reflects a retrospective and nostalgic gaze at pop culture, exploring iconic imagery and play. Recently he has used materials and subject matter which have a resonance with adolescent experiences such as: Lego, 80's computer graphics and 80's TV programs

Current artworks include: a giant army of totemic Lego men, which he calls 'robots', scrolling message boards, supplanted with jokes, giant signs, Lego plaques (Wall) with retro statements and a dazzling array of animations using 8 bit computer graphics and modernist geometric shapes

Favourite Artists:: 15, Solo show & film preview, The star and shadow cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK , May 08

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James Johnson-Perkins
The Star and Shadow Cinema
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Sunday 11th May 2008

6-8 pm
An exhibition of 15 Robots, 15 Drawings and 15 (80's) singles

8 pm
15, Preview of new experimental feature length documentary.

To see the exhibition will have to pay a £1 Membership fee

How does it feel? Solo show, Nospace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, May 08

15th May - 15th June, 2008
Private view: 15th May 2008, 7-10pm

Nospace Gallery
Bangkok
Thailand

Nospace gallery exhibits indie, pop, street and experimental art by international artists. The 'Nospace' concept has been developed by a group of leading new Thai: artists, musicians, photographers and designers, to represent a new idea and vision for a flourishing 'up and coming' generation of artists in Bongkok.

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