James Carey

James Carey's practice focuses on the blurring of architecture, design and art. He works between the interior and exterior, art and design, the familiar and the unfamiliar, the concepts we create and the glitches that surprise us. Interested in addressing vernacular forms and spaces, acknowledging the ordinary and everyday, then creating a disquieting slippage between the norm and the veiled.

Whilst working on and within an urban scale, Carey investigates the Wishing to highlight the underside of our surroundings, the hidden face of visible things. Through this practice, he is not so interested in inscribing my view, or one reading, upon the work, but in allowing for multiplicities. A rich and ambiguous complication of meaning is set in specific tension, and relation, to an apparently simple gesture.

Carey is interested in utilizing resources, materials and sites that actually exist. They must be present within society’s framework, to stimulate an audience to question the meaning of a particular space, to turn this framework against itself.
The work must reveal something, but allow for multiple readings to remain inexplicable. It is imperative that the practice reads, analyses and understands situations, contexts and histories of a particular site.

This is a practice that explores and demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between body, site, intervention and discourse.