James SCHOFIELD

Profile

SCHOFIELD is a creative practitioner, researcher and educator. 
Born in Burnley, England. Lives and works in Liverpool. Graduated with a PhD titled “The Artist-Led Condition: Reframing Self-Organisation in the Visual Arts in the UK Post-2007” from Liverpool School of Art and Design in 2021.
He is Acting Programme Leader for MA Exhibition Studies at Liverpool School of Art and Design, and alongside this is an Editor at Corridor8, Trustee at The Royal Standard (Liverpool), and Advisory Board member of PINK (Manchester).

Recent exhibitions and activities:
2022 “Terracotta Dreams,” Existential House, Birkenhead, UK
2022 “Reading Room,” Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool
2020 publication edit “CHAIN/MAIL Issue 3,” Corridor8, Manchester
2020 symposium “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About The Artist-Led,” Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool
2019 lecture “Making an Artist/Career,” Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo

About works / performance

Schofield’s research and practice is multifaceted and not tied to a single medium or approach. Combining expanded exhibition-making, writing and public speaking it explores existential issues relating to neoliberalism, globalisation and network culture within the art system and broader society. Taking into account the impacts of those core aspects that govern contemporary existence, it examines how they have shaped self-organised practices and exhibitionary methodologies and histories. Through this, Schofield interrogates the similarities, differences and friction between institutional, para-institutional and independent strategies, which create organisational models ‘alternative’ to those governing forces to try and maintain autonomy between digital and physical spaces, and promote creative expression.