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ABOUT :
Often uneasy or tragic, irrational or other, Jim Carter’s work is linked to a real world of suffering and transcendence: making sculpture from organic materials as a means of advocacy, atonement or commemoration; shifting to story and the written word as a way to enter emotional and numinous spaces of memory and dream. What appears on the surface to be a wilful disturbance of the remains of organic life in order to fulfil a creative compulsion is intended to be part of a transforming and re-sanctifying process. Taken materials are reconfigured into new forms to express complex feelings of grief and loss, love and devotion, fertility and renewal. Fundamental in this work is a conviction in an irrepressible spirit for regeneration in the world, an imperishable flame that rises most clearly in landscape and the magic and otherness of animals...
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Jim Carter was born in Worcestershire in 1967. He received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University and an MSc Award in Ecopsychology from the Centre For Human Ecology, Edinburgh. His work has appeared in Dark Mountain, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.
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A small exhibition of associated works is taking place at Walcott Chapel in Bath to launch Jim Carter's ‘Mystes’, a short story which has been produced as a limited edition hand stitched book illustrated by artist collaborator Ibby Lanfear…
Mabon’ is the first in an ongoing series of international mixed online exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented…
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
Anima Mundi is proud to present ‘Protected by Alarms’ which takes place in the empty and derelict, Vicarage Flats in St. Ives. The exhibition provides an eclectic response to the confused and challenging backdrop of this moment in time.
Harriet Bell, Tessa Farmer, Dr Martin Shaw, Jim Carter & Jamie Mills present a selection of unique, multimedia, solo projects, from artists who’s work weaves the prosaic with the romantic, elemental, wild and visionary, under the overarching title of ‘Animism’