Jim Rampage

Jim Rampage is a British artist living and working in London. Rampage received his BA in Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts in 2014 and has gone on to acquire an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Arts in London 2021-2023, His work has been exhibited across Europe and the United Kingdom and is a recipient of a 2019 Stanley award and 2023 Snowdon Trust award.

Jim's practice bounces between hand-painting text, graphics and sculpture.

The primary focus of Rampage’s practice revolves around the belief that language or text is akin to a physical material; it is like bricks or mortar. Beyond this framework, drawing on communicating fluctuating mental health spectrums and emotional states; Exuberance-Nervousness; Desire-Turmoil; Order-Disruption; Paranoia-Ecstasy; Violence-Silence. Coexisting, fluctuating, and contrasting states of mind; it is the disjunction between these lapses that intrigue and is where ideas in the studio become tidal.

Language has the dual ability to generate anxiety whilst it can simultaneously remedy it. We can arrive at actions through a way of words and at words through a way of actions. Text in society authenticates and defines spaces; the single addition of a word can change an entire directive is a methodology to making.