James Richards (born 1983)
is a British artist who lives in Berlin and London.
Born in
Cardiff
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,
he studied Fine Art at
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London based in London, United Kingdom, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation.
It offers further education, further ...
, London.
On 7 May 2014, it was announced that he was one of the four nominees for the
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...
.
Richards was nominated for ''Rosebud'', a 13-minute black and white video that includes video clips and photographs taken from erotic books in a Tokyo library, all of which have had the
genitalia
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scratched out to comply with censorship laws.
References
External links
More Than A Feeling: An Interview with James Richards*
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1983 births
Artists from Cardiff
British video artists
Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
Living people
English contemporary artists
Welsh contemporary artists