Jamie works across different art-forms, including sound, moving image, installation and print. After graduating from a BA in Art and Visual Culture from the University of the West of England (2015) and receiving the Studio Graduate Award (2016) Jamie collaborated on a short film with Channel 4 titled ‘Filters, Plaster HIP’ (2017), which was shown at numerous film festivals and exhibitions nationwide. Developing his practice further on the alternative, art-led course East Bristol Contemporary day school (2022) and Open School East associate programme (2023) Jamie was introduced to and developed techniques in sound art, interactive installation technologies, world-building and queer methodologies and civic practices.
Hybridity is at the centre of Jamie’s practice, rooting his research into the history and context of site and questioning how places are constructed by the interaction between found objects, text, bodies and architecture. Jamie’s research draws on personal and familial histories, foregrounding inherited objects and materials. When presented as installations his works address the audience directly sometimes through the use of open-source, interactive technologies. Jamie’s work also uses socially-engaged elements and in the past has included printmaking workshops, Arduino sensor workshops and field-recording trips, working across issues of public space, human networks and social climate science.
Selected projects include We are All Lichens Now (2025), an exhibition with Emily Stapleton- Jefferis that explored humanity’s relationship with the more-than-human world, produced by The Feminist Lecture Programme. Tusheti Loops (2024) was an Audio/Visual piece responding to the social and natural rhythms of the Tusheti people and landscape, made during a Visual Arts South West funded residency in Georgia. A Forest of Things (2023) was a workshop series, exhibition and RISO print publication exploring the use of sensors in art while exploring the interconnectedness of natural and human networks. Printing the Space (2022) was a residency and socially engaged project in Bristol City Hall, where visitors created monoprints while dwelling on the question ‘What does a space need?’