Recent work and exhibtions
Work
Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Hit Me With Your Best Shot
2008

This durational film features no tuneful audio - only the pathetic clicks and twangs produced by the plastic guitar controller can be heard as Ford plays his way through all 39 solo career songs in the Guitar Hero III game.
Work
33 things to do before you're 10

33 things to do before you're 10
2007-2008

Ford came across an article in a newspaper which listed 33 things you should do before you're 10 and realised he hadn't done them all. He decided that, since he was soon to be married and really should have grown up by now, he would work his way through the list.
Exhibition
'Cat Collar 2' installed at Irregular Pulse

Irregular Pulse

Ayling&Conroy, Bedwyr Williams, James R Ford, Russell Herron, Sarah Doyle, Stewart Gough

Exhibition: 30 July - 16 August 2008

FERREIRA PROJECTS is proud to announce James R Ford’s first curatorial project - Irregular Pulse. Presenting a group of contemporary artists whose work is imbued with a sense of play and conceptual wit; spanning installation, sculpture, painting and video.
Work
Cat Collar 2: One Night in Brixton

Cat Collar 2: One Night in Brixton
2008

A year on and Oscar dons a newly modified puppy's hoody, with night vision spy camera, for another Cat Collar outing.
Work
Oscar Presents

Oscar Presents
2008

Instead of bringing home gifts of dead mice and birds, Oscar the cat stole stuffed toys from nearby households and left them on his owners’ door mat, over a period of three months.

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).