James Evans

His biomorphic sculptures are composed through a collision of qualities rarely encountered within a single form, merging softness and hardness, organic and industrial, visceral and mineral. 

Working with both ceramic and metallic materials, Evans fires and coats clay surfaces with layers of gleaming gold, tarnished copper, and oxidised iron. These finishes create complex skins that appear at once seductive and unsettling, evoking an ambiguous material language that shifts between the corporeal and the geological. His works suggest forms that at once flesh like and fossilised entities that seem pliable yet endure with a quiet permanence. 

Evans has exhibited extensively in both group and solo contexts. Notable group exhibitions include Award at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (2011), Atlantic Crossings at the Barbican Art Gallery (1998), Ripe at the Crafts Council (2000), and COLLECT (2003, 2004, 2006). His solo exhibitions include Abugation at Marsden Woo Project Space (2012), Galerie Sandra Buergel (2007), Plaisantin at Cosa Gallery, London (2005), and Hypoplastic at Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham (2002).

In 2001, he was a finalist for the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize, and in 2004 he received an Arts Foundation Fellowship. His work is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.