Jim is an internationally recognized filmmaker and artist working in London. He is currently engaged in Fine Art doctoral studies at The University of the Arts, London.

Born of the experience of having his MA collection destroyed in a studio fire just days before exhibition, Jim’s evolving fascination as a painter with surface as image explores notions of erasure, negation and sensation through the material qualities of paint. Having trained intially in the History of Art, Jim’s non-traditional fine art background has provoked a highly individual visual identity. In simpe terms Jim is obsessed with how paint moves. Ideas of authenticity through gesture serve to explore the tension between figure and ground, between form and the unrepresentable. Citing influences that include Velasquez, Goya, the New York School, and expressionist painting of post-war Paris, Jim’s work reflects his interest in direct communication through paint as transcendant vehicle. By pursuing painting as a subtractive, destructive process his practice investigates a relationship between painting, corrosion and the sublime.

As a filmmaker his varied catalogue includes collaborations with some of the industry’s most noted producers, including Sarah Radclyffe (Ratcatcher, Caravaggio) and Paul Tribijts (This is England, Milk). A unique visual style has seen him work on numerous high profile commercial campaigns for Sony, MTV, Unicef and the Fifa. In 2008 his improvised, BIFA nominated debut feature film, Extraordinary Rendition premiered in competition at the Edinburgh and Locarno International Film Festivals. The film was distributed world wide by BBC Films.