(b. 1979 Liverpool, GB)

Bio

I make work about fat queer bodies. I research the print history of girth and mirth organisations and early bear culture to use as source material, either as compositions for drawings or raw materials for collage. As well as using archive materials I use contemporary models to insert fat queer bodies into art history. I explore the intermingling of queer, print and art history and the connections/contrasts that exist between the past and present, questioning current ideas around beauty, sex, masculinity and gender. I introduce audiences to aspects of queer culture they may not have been exposed to.

Education

2004 - 2006 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art

2000 - 2003 Winchester School of Art, BA Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Bulk Male Flower Collages, Abject Gallery, Newcastle (GB)

2017 Girth and Mirth, Raw Art, Tel Aviv (IL)

2016 NSFL, Printed Matter Inc, New York (US)

2014 Everybody Wants to be Happy, Raw Art, Tel Aviv (IL)

Dead, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle (GB)

Dead Boys, Ditto Press, London (GB)

2012 Shitheads/Ninja Turtle Sex Museum, Südpol, Luzern (CH)

2011 Rich Shit/Poor Shit, Le Petit Mignon, Berlin (DE)

Impaled, Raw Art, Tel Aviv (IL)

2010 Ninja Turtle Sex Museum, Five Hundred Dollars, London (GB)

2009 James Unsworth’s Sins, Evan Hughes Gallery, Sydney (AU)

I Love You Like A Murderer Loves Their Victims, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London (GB)

2008 Let Me Watch You Fuck Your Wife, Goldsmiths University, London (GB)

2007 Nightmares and Illuminations, Raw Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)

Group Exhibitions

2022 Milking, Milk Gallery, Melbourne (AU)

2016 AA Bronson: Queer Vitrine 1, Maureen Paley, Frieze Art Fair, London (GB)

2016 A Lovers Discord, MOCA, London (GB)

2015 A Lovers Discord, KONTORprojects, Copenhagen (DK)

2014 A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr, London (GB)

2013 Space Is Deep, Daniel Blau, London (GB)

New Works at the Walker, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (GB)

New Art from Britain, MOCCA, Toronto (CA)

2012 Friday The Thirteenth, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen (DK)

2011 Savant, High Roller Society, London (GB)

Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (US)

2010 Papyrophilia, CHARLIE SMITH, London (GB)

Manderley, John Jones Project Space, London (GB)

2009 I am by Birth a Genevese, Forde-Usine, Geneva (CH)

New London School, Galerie Schuster, Berlin (DE)

Let Me Rule, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague (CZ)

2008 The Future Can Wait 2008, Old Truman Brewery, London (GB)

My Giant Colouring Book/You Turn, Campbell Works, London (GB)

2007 Daniel Johnston & James Unsworth: It’s the End of the Show, Vegas Gallery, London (GB)

James Unsworth & Jonny Briggs, Vegas Gallery, London (GB)

Group Show, Hua Li Ge Gallery, Beijing (CN)

Awards

2016 Arts Council England Artists' International Development Fund

2006 Tim Mara Award: Generation, Royal College of Art, London

Arches John Purcell Paper Award: The RE Student Elections

Awarded membership to The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers

2005 Joseph Webb A.R.E Commemorative Fund Award presented by The Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, awarded to an Outstanding Etcher under the age of 35

Residencies

2015 Troy Town Art Pottery, London (GB)

2014 Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle (GB)

2011 – 2013 Print Fellowship, Royal Academy Schools, London (GB)

2008 Goldsmiths University, London (GB)

2005 Cite International des Artes, Paris (FR)

2003 Brno Technological University, Brno (CZ)

Collections

The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

The Ilona Goor Museum, Tel Aviv

The Walker Art Gallery, National Museums, Liverpool

The Royal College of Art, London

The UBS Art Collection, London

Private collections in Europe, USA, Australia and Israel