Considering Art Podcast – Mark James, painter and filmmaker

Author: Bob Chaundy
Published: Mon 10 Jun 2024
Episode Link: https://consideringart.com/2024/06/10/considering-art-podcast-mark-james-painter-and-filmmaker/

In this episode, British abstract artist and filmmaker Mark James talks about his tortuous route to securing a place at Goldsmith’s art college, how he witnessed the Freeze exhibition mounted by the so-called Young British Artists, YBAs, and how he made a subsequent film about it, the intrigue behind his first film about the American sculptor Carl Andre, how films about other artists both dead and alive re-awakened his desire to resume painting, how random shapes and forms inspire his abstract work and how he strives to create emotion in his paintings.