James Robert Ford is a British artist whose practice is concerned with childhood past-times, pursuits and obsessions. His body of work consists of projects and investigations based around observations, process and play: ranging from a formula predicting Bond film plot structure, to tracking the lives of cigarette lighters, to covering a Ford Capri in over 4,000 toy cars.

On this website you can view projects that are specifically web based, as well as documentation of physical works and installations produced over the last decade.

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21/04/08 | Work
Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes

Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes
2008

Click on the link above to view works from this project or click here to view a brief walk-through of the exhibition as shown at FERREIRA PROJECTS this month.
10/04/08 | Press
There is a full page spread about Ford's imminent London solo show in the current issue of Grafik magazine. Click here to view the press cutting.
17/03/08 | Edition
Number Plate Initials

Number Plate Initials
Lambda print mounted on aluminium
650 x 112 mm
Edition of 10

Number Plate sized, aluminium mounted print of all 124 npi findings (views of each vehicle and close-ups of the number plates) that Ford documented over the period of a year.
05/03/08 | Exhibition
Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes

Duchamp Played Chess; I Made Cranes.

18 April - 10 May
Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 18.00

OPENING NIGHT
17 April 18.00 - 21.00

FERREIRA PROJECTS is proud to present the first solo exhibition in London of James R Ford - Duchamp Played Chess; I made Cranes. Ford's new body of work emerges from his fascination with the ancient Japanese practice of Origami and begins to illustrate how Eastern Art has become Westernised.

FERREIRA PROJECTS

Lower Ground Floor, 23 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PB
15/02/08 | Press
The Press section of this site has been updated to include videos of Ford's television appearances and programmes featuring his work.
02/01/08 | Exhibition
PURE_drawing+illustration

11 January – 02 February
Monday – Saturday 10.00 – 18.00

OPENING NIGHT
10 January 18.00 - 21.00

FERREIRA PROJECTS would like to announce PURE_drawing+illustration, the second in the PURE series of exhibitions in which participating artists; James R Ford, Fabia Claris, Frank Kiely, Stephen Kirby, Luke Moody and Hayley Potter, have concentrated on producing an eclectic exhibition which explores the intrinsic potential of drawing to communicate in its purest form.

FERREIRA PROJECTS, Lower Ground Floor, 23 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PB
20/12/07 | Work
Paper Planes

Paper Planes
2007

For this work Ford was focused on the playground activity of making paper aeroplanes. Many different designs (of varying difficulty) were folded, flown and documented in the process...
28/11/07 | Press
Click here to read the full interview that Ford recently did for myartspace.

"Initially I started folding paper cranes as a way to escape - Origami to me was like what playing chess was to Duchamp, although I never intended to retire at this point."
09/11/07 | Edition
9 Rotating Rainbow Cranes

9 Rotating Rainbow Cranes
Animated screensaver

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Ford produces drawings, animations, assemblage sculpture, installation and film. He also utilises the Internet as a means of creating and displaying ideas and projects. Some of his works are interactive, or involve audience participation through contribution or direct involvement.

Ford has co-written and illustrated the book House Gymnastics, had work commissioned for the permanent collection at the Swedish Museum of Modern Art, was nominated for the British Art Show 6, and has received a number of grants from Arts Council England.

Projects of note include House Gymnastics (a domestic version of Le Parkour), Feecal the little chocolate starfish (a subversive band of cartoon characters), General Carbuncle (a British version of the General Lee, using thousands of toy cars) and Six Degrees of Smoking (tracking the lives of lost lighters).