About

James Millichamp is an artist, curator and educator working in Shropshire and the West Midlands. His work is all about process, taking inspiration from the surroundings; imagery is distorted into visual poems or songs. Millichamp’s artistic practice employs various processes, including painting, drawing, print and cyanotype.

In the work linear elements are minimal, almost illustrative, providing the viewer the opportunity to interpret and populate the scene. The aim is to create the sensation of being in a landscape, rather than a literal description of it. This pastoral work has developed on from a fascination for the built environment, and particularly urban decay and dereliction.

The imagery captures the atmosphere of a space, alluding to lost history through the process of change. An empty space or disused building can act as a symbol for the temporaneous nature of mankind’s achievements, or as a metaphor for solitude. Vacant environments are documented; places, devoid of human life, freeze and reaffirm human existence. Elements are deleted, obliterated or obscured. By redacting essential aspects of a scene (a line, the form, a detail) the thing described becomes lost, vague, but also more present. It is the absence of selective detail that engages – the sparsity in the work, that which is missing, forces the on-looker to fill in the gaps, facilitating a unique reading of the image, as the viewer actively experiences it. If you depict an absence, you simultaneously reveal the presence.

Man standing in front of colorful abstract paintings, wearing a navy suit and glasses, smiling.
Qutab Minar 4

Qutab Minar 4

Valetudinarium Oculis Installation

Valetudinarium Oculis Installation

The Narrow Way

The Narrow Way

The Tower

The Tower

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  • BA (2:1), MA: School of Art, University of Wolverhampton 2000, 2008

    PGCE: Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, City of Birmingham University, 2001

    Artist Residency: School of Art, University of Wolverhampton 2019

  • Millichamp has had work displayed on several occasions at The RBSA, is a regular exhibitor at Ironbridge Fine Arts, and has been featured in Newcastle Museum and Art Gallery, Wednesfield Museum and Art Gallery, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, as well as at Fresh Art Fair at Islington Business Design Centre and various pop up exhibitions. 

    • RBSA Candidates’ Exhibition 2025

    • Shortlisted Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024 - The Director's Cut: online showcase

    • Footprint Gallery, Ironbridge, Secret Severn Art Exhibition 2024

    • Derby Print Open 2024

    • Ironbridge Fine Arts, Printmaking Competition 2024

    • Mrs Jones Art Shop, Shrewsbury, Spring Open Exhibition

    • Shrewsbury Arts Trail, Community Gallery 2023-24

    • Ironbridge Fine Arts, Winter Exhibition 2023

    • Winner Belle Vue Arts Festival x Soden Collection, Shrewsbury 2023

    • Ironbridge Fine Arts, Printmaking Competition 2023

    • Soden Collection, Shrewsbury, Secret Artist Sale 2023

    • Mrs Jones Art Shop, Open Exhibition 2023

    • Shrewsbury Arts Trail, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery 2023

    • Ironbridge Fine Arts, Winter Exhibition 2022

    • The Viner Gallery at Wolverhampton Grammar School, Alumni Exhibition 2022

    • RBSA Prize Exhibition 2022

    • MoMA Mach., Tabernacle Art Competition 2022

    • The New Art Gallery, Walsall, West Midlands Open 2022

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