James Bacchi-Andreoli, born in 1977, lives in London where he is Head of Art and Art History at The West London Free School. Graduating with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths’ in 2000 and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2002, his art practice, from working with cardboard and spray paint to quick but considered paintings, has always focused on the instinctive, being both playfu and serious. He has exhibited widely with such bodies as the the Contemporary Arts Society and the Arts Council and also alongside artists such as Phyllida Barlow and Michael Craig-Martin.
A series entitled ‘Notations’, which are gestural linocuts made in response to the poems of James Peake, has been featured in the publication NU Review: www.nureview.org / https://www.instagram.com/nu_review/?hl=en
He has also been on the panel of judges for the London-based Vanguard Art Prize in association with Camberwell College of Arts, which provides a recent painting graduate with a studio for a year and an exhibition at the end.
His work has recently featured in the Chelsea Arts Club Yearbook 2024 and he has a forthcoming solo show at the Chelsea Arts Club from 1- 27 October 2024.
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Selected Solo/Duo Shows
2022 Pop Up Show (Part 1-5), Flemingstrasse Gallery, Munich, Germany
2015 The Paper Nautilus, The Mantel Piece Gallery, Fraubraun Vintage, Wimbledon
2011 296 Days, The Simulator Gallery, London
2008 Monte Vista Photography Show (with Tom Colebrook), Art House, Lewisham
Selected Group Shows
2023 Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
2022. In the Flat Field, 50 MV Gallery, Liverpool
2018 Summer Show, Kindred Studios, Queen’s Park, London
2017 Kite Studios Open, London
2016 Open Studios, Makespace, London
2013 Handkerchief of Clouds: A Painting Show in Five Acts, The Mayor's Parlour, London
2012 Utopia, Hoxton Art Gallery, London
2011 Simulacrum (curated by Richard Billingham), Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2011 Luke Skiffington/James Bacchi-Andreoli, HATCH Space, London
2009 Addressing the Boredom, Quest for Paradise Arts Group, PopUp Gallery, Wandsworth
(Collaboration with poet James Peake)
2008 Wandsworth Open Studios, London
2007 Loop (Printmakers), Bankside Gallery, London
Surrey Open, The Lightbox, Woking
2006 6 Years, Tiltham’s Farm Gallery, Godalming, Surrey
2005 Wandsworth Open Studios, London
2004 Guildford Arts Society, Surrey
2003 Art Futures, Contemporary Arts Society, London
Location, Location, Location, Albury Arts, Surrey (curated by me / Arts Council
funded)
Selected publications and essays
NU Review (ed. Stefanie Braun and Wouter De Broeck), 2020 https://www.nureview.org/
‘In Conversation’ with editor of NU Review Wouter De Broeck, December 2020
‘A Meditation on Medium’ (essay for 296 Days solo show), Becky Hunter, 2011
Panel Series, 2009-11, Poems and Photographs, (book collaboration with James Peake)
Contemporary Magazine, Location, Location, Location, Sotiris Kycirou, 2003
AN Magazine, Location, Location, Location, Brendan Fletcher, 2003
‘Location, Location, Location’, essay by David Ryan, 2003
100 Reviews, Vanishing, JJ Charlesworth, Alberta Press, 2002
Time Out, The Collection, August, 2001