JAMES RANDELL
James Randell is a printmaker, print technician and teacher from London. By working with found objects, images and text he builds haphazard narrative environments to play amongst. Whilst in residence at The Writers’ Room in two short stints (September ), he hopes to deepen his research and develop new work towards a project about London, booze and loneliness called No More Fun, which includes a found-text play about a drunkard and etchings that echo historical, popular engraving series, namely Rudolph Ackermann’s The Microcosm of London (1687) and Marcellus Laroon’s Cries of London (1687). James is interested in the journalistic past and present potential of printmaking, in society’s cyclical fears of apocalypse, in grandiose masculine histrionics, and creeping daily encounters with the uncanny.
An extract from No More Fun:
‘How many strange things come to pass -
As round the wheel we go,
Like pictures moving on the glass.
In dreams we have sipped,
Page by page,
There are many horrors in it.
And there was very little else but mud,
Smeared all things with a damp and dismal mould.
I’ve forgotten something down below -
Here’s my tobacco pouch as a souvenir…’
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