James Clarkson is an artist and photographer based in Sheffield, UK.

For all enquiries please contact: j.k.l.clarkson@gmail.com

Clarkson’s work explores contemporary office work as a condition that shapes everyday life. Working with sculpture and photography, he draws on his own personal experience of cognitive labour to examine how work structures time, attention and how its logics extend beyond the workplace. Using the aesthetics of digital administration and office environments, Clarkson considers how productivity and rest are entangled, and how the pressures of work leave lasting traces on our environments and sense of agency.

Selected solo exhibitions include; K-House, Bloc Projects, Sheffield (2021); Smooth Flow, The Tetley, Leeds (2014); Pavilion, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2012); Twin Tone Lustre, DREI, Cologne (2013); A Painted Sun as a Yellow Spot, Rod Barton Gallery, London (2012)

Selected group exhibitions include; Private Song, Doosan Arts Centre, Seoul (2020); The Coventry Biennial, Coventry (2019); The Collection Stripped Bare, The Lab’Bel Collection, Paris (2016); Return Journey, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno (2014); About Sculpture, Rolando Anselmi, Berlin (2014); Graphic Design, Futura Project, Prague (2014)

James Clarkson was the recipient of the 2019-2021 Freelands Foundation Artist Platform, in partnership with Site Gallery, and received the 2020 Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. He was also a participant of Syllabus VI, which is an independent alternative art school organised by Wysing Arts Centre, Eastside Projects, Iniva Arts, Spike Island and Studio Voltaire.

A complete artist CV can be viewed here.