Jim Eyre

British born Jim Eyre trained as an interior architect, became an award-winning Creative Director before finding his home as an artist who has been exhibited and been published globally.  

Along the way he has been a business owner, a designer with Barber Osgerby, a film maker represented by Partizan, a creative designer for Sir Paul Smith and a tutor at the Royal College of Art.

Working with everything from plywood, photography, film and even balloons, Jim believes ideas should come first, then be realised in the appropriate medium.

Jim has created and been involved in a number of iconic pieces of work. These include Loop table, created while at Barber Osgerby which has permanent residency in both MoMA and the V&A and the Balloon Head window display for Paul Smith, which is still used to open new stores all around the world and inspired the front cover of Sir Paul Smith’s latest book.

‘I experience the act of seeing as an act of creation, a bringing-into-existence.

To see everything -- but feel nothing -- is a commonplace experience for me in an overwhelming and visually stimulated world.

Inanimate objects, and their occurrences in my images, are given life through my willingness to observe what’s commonly perceived as nothing. These material things that can be seen and touched are able create their own energy and a control over their destinies; interacting as if they have a secret life free of human intervention.

Yet, the truth is these ‘things’ do not have their own stories. Instead, they become imbued with my thoughts. By rendering their nonsensical occurrence, I make meaning by projection. I have no choice but to attempt to reconcile the mysteries found in these scenes. They want to be ignored, but I am attracted to their vulnerability.

These objects of the everyday beckon me into an uncomfortable interaction. Within this dialogue that is created, I am able to visualize the uncomfortable happiness of an existence that surrounds us and that we all carry within.’ - Jim Eyre

We are delighted to represent the work of Jim Eyre in collaboration exclusively at the Nordic Art Agency.

TOGETHER /APART - Natalie Christensen & Jim Eyre

These composite images of surreal cityscapes embody the disquieting experience of how our lives have been transformed by the ravages of COVID-19.

We have retreated from our daily routines and into our homes for an unprecedented period of time. With no end in sight, we rely more than ever on the digital arena for human connection. We can no longer be in densely populated urban spaces, grabbing a coffee with friends or going out to see a film. In response to the isolation, we created these hypnogogic landscapes to reflect upon the experience of roaming inside our smartphones in the time of coronavirus. For many of us, that has become the sole place to process the impact of so much change and loss. When the digital realm is all we have - rather than a supplement to “real life” – for some, the hollowness is more apparent. While we are coming to grips with the fact that isolation is now the key to our survival for the foreseeable future, circumstances beg the question – is this really living? And if we are truly social beings, what will be the impact of riding out a pandemic while gazing at our tiny black mirrors?

Expanding on our work from ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES, we are again combining photographs from our respective communities and responding to the experience of leaving behind our former lives and participating in a global effort to stop the spread of the virus. Architectural fragments and elements of the landscape are mingled to present diverse psychological experiences of this new world we are living in – such as shock, loneliness, yearning, fear. Unable to go out into the streets, we are paradoxically creating intentional chaos as we seek some kind of order, healing, or catharsis in an increasingly unpredictable world. And we wait in anticipation for the time when it is safe to return to our lives and gather together again.

Images from Together / Apart are available and exhibited exclusively by the Nordic Art Agency gallery.

Artist Biography

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023

Solo Exhibition Natalie Christensen & Jim Eyre, TOGETHER/APART, Nordic Art Agency, Malmö, Sweden, June 15 2023 – August 31, 2023

Dallas Art Fair, Turner Carroll Gallery, April 20-23, 2023

Monolith Gallery, Protopian Futures, curated by Kristyna Archer, April 4, 2023

2022

Group Exhibition, Response, Pie Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 23 – October 23, 2022

Street Installation, SHIFTINGSCAPE(S), Soho and Mayfair locations, London, UK, Aug 22 -29 and Aug 22 – September 5, 2022

Solo Exhibition Natalie Christensen & Jim Eyre, TOGETHER/APART, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, March 11, 2022 – April 8, 2022

Abstract Photograohy – GOLD Award, Natalie Christensen & Jim Eyre, TOGETHER/APART, Curated by Kristina Rivas, Art Folio 2022

2021

Juried Exhibition, Real or Imagined Juried by Clare Bell, Director of Exhibitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA, June 16 - July 15, 2021

Solo Collaborative Exhibition with Jim Eyre, VIRALSCAPES/COVIDSTATES, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, December 3 -December 24, 2021

2020

International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA Nov 14- Dec 20, 2020

Solo Exhibition, You Might Never Be The Person You Were, Bayeux, London, UK October, 2020

Top 10 Finalist: In Isolation: You, Me, We, Lucie Foundation & Musee Magazine Exhibition, August - September 2020

Group Exhibition, Works On Paper 2, Blue Shop Cottage, London, UK September – October 2020

Solo Exhibition, You Might Never Be The Person You Were, NHS Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London, UK March – May, 2020

2019

Solo Exhibition, Through The Doors, Metropolis X Clash Magazine, London, UK November – Ongoing, 2019

Solo collaborative exhibition with Jim Eyre, ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES, Turner Carroll Gallery and El Rey Court, Santa Fe, NM April 19-21, 2019

2018

Solo collaborative exhibition with Jim Eyre, ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES, UNM School of Architecture Gallery, September 14 - October 11, 2018 

alteredstatesalteredscapes.com Launch at Review Santa Fe Photography Festival, October 19-20, 2018

Solo collaborative exhibition with Jim Eyre, a ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES at Peckham Levels, London, U.K. February -April 2018

ALTEREDSTATES/ALTEREDSCAPES, exhibited on the Standard Vision Screen in downtown Los Angeles, CA. January 2018

2017

Solo collaborative Exhibition with Sir Paul Smith, YELLOW, Paul smith, Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan, October 2017

Solo collaborative Exhibition with Sir Paul Smith, YELLOW, Paul smith, Kyoto, Japan, August 2017

Solo collaborative Exhibition with Sir Paul Smith, YELLOW, Paul smith, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan, June 2017

Juried Group Exhibition - Onomato Kunstleverein, Dusseldorf, Germany February, 2017

2016

Solo collaborative Exhibition with Sir Paul Smith, YELLOW, Paul smith, Beak St, London, UK, October 2016

Artist Residency, SOME PICTURES, The Hospital Club, Endell Street, London, UK March – May 2016

PUBLICATIONS

• Isolation,  Silk Road Review, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon

• I Waited, Abandon Journal, Issue 4, Austin, Texas 

• Reppink’s Selects, Broad Magazine, 2023

• You Might Never Be The Person You Were, PYLOT Magazine 2020

• You Might Never Be The Person You Were, DARKLIGHT 2020

• See You On Court, South East London Journal 2017

• White Issue, NOISE 2016

• Green Issue, NOISE 2016