Marty St. James

Marty St James (born 1954) is Professor of Fine art in the School Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire and is perhaps best known nationally and internationally, for his portrait of Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew: The Swimmer – commissioned in 1990 by the National Portrait Gallery and recently migrated to new digital formats.^[1] He studied at the Bournville College of Art.^[2]

The Swimmer is a seminal moment in video. Its use of time and fragmentation employing the analogue methodologies and equipment, which were the only ones available in 1990, and the site sensitive sculptural qualities of its installation predicting contemporary developments in video installation. In a process the artist describes as ‘sculpture in time’ his multi–channel video installations capture his subjects in a ‘sliver of time’ – moving yet frozen for all eternity, self consciously entrapped by the technological paraphernalia, which a video work requires to deliver its message. ^[3]

Marty St.James is a member^[4] of CREAC^[5] the 'centre for research in electronic art and communication' part of the 'The Fine Art Practices Group'.

In 1984 Marty St.James contributed to VIDEO ART: the early years^[6] with a performance for the British/Canadian Video Exchange, A Space / ARC, Toronto.

Marty is a judge^[7] in the Art Category for the UjADF Award 2010^[8] UK-Japan Art Design Film Award 2010.

External links

• Marty St.James — official website
• The Portrait Now
• evo1
• the centre of attention
• absolutearts
• The Project Room for New Media and Performing Arts
• HHWF Wingate Scholarships

References

1. ^ http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/creac/stjames01.html
2. ^ "Art goes on show in city bar". Birmingham Evening Mail (Trinity Mirror Midlands): p. 53. 15 February 2002. 
3. ^ http://www.npg.org.uk/collections
4. ^ http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/creac/stjames01.html
5. ^ http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/creac/
6. ^ http://ukvideoart.tripod.com/
7. ^ http://www.ujadf-award.com/judges/judges.html
8. ^ [1]

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