About

Jamie Limond BA (Hons) MA MSc HNDip IEng MIET

Statement

My art is influenced by a heightened awareness of mortality, stemming from a profound diagnosis. I delve into the human condition at its fringes, exploring brokenness and our responses to existence and temporality. Beyond this, my interest in philosophy guides me in creating authentic art. Currently, I am a postgraduate researcher pursuing a doctorate in Fine Art.

My practice is informed with an engineer’s grasp of materials and a keen appreciation for art history. I embrace a multidisciplinary approach without a specific preference for any one medium. I believe this approach led to the award of the British Telecoms / DigiTech commission (2020) and the establishment of JL Engineering Art. My most recent art exhibition incorporated elements of green woodcarving, model making, electronics, sea charts and autobiographical video.

My DfA research has focused on ultreia, the latin greeting used by pilgrims, encouraging them to keep going, or literally to go ‘beyond’ or ‘farther’. I interpret this in a secular way and through the application of wellbeing techniques. Combining my foundation in sailing (recently becoming an endorsed Yachtmaster Ocean skipper) with my art practice (which provides its own mental rewards) and my belief in the benefits of movement and blue space bathing. This focus is furthering my evaluation of waterborne pilgrimages. These developments have resulted in the creation of JL SEA (Sailing, Engineering, Art), a project whereby I skipper passages, with like minded people on voyages that provide new perspectives, sailing around coasts and across seas – providing art residencies aboard Gaudeo through Oystercatcher Sailing. In 2023, I trialed and completed the first of these, an anti-clockwise circumnavigation of the UK and Ireland.

My influences include Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski, and Anya Gallaccio.

Born in 1974, I live and work in Suffolk, England.

Solo Exhibitions

W&B Gallery, Sudbury (Jun-Jul 2014)

Selected Group Exhibitions

Showcase 24, UEL, London (21st June – 23rd June 2024).
Wasteless 2, Way Out East Gallery, London (24th April 2024).
Reflection, Artists in Residence, HAHC, Harwich (3rd Feb – 30th March 2024).
Exploring the Sublime, Harwich Festival of the Arts (22nd June – 24th July 2022)
To Begin at the Beginning, The Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh (18th Sept – 22nd Sept 2020).
Harwich Shorts, Harwich Festival of the Arts, online (25^th June – 31^st July 2020).
Impact, Chiaya Art Award, online (15 Jun to 30 Sept 2020).
Finé Art, Foyer, UoS, Ipswich (Aug 2019).
Alive in the Universe, May You Live in Interesting Times. Associazione Eventi d’arte e d’architettura, 58th Venice Beinnalé (May-Jun 2019) [short film].
tbc, Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich (Apr 2019).
Alive in the Universe, The Lookout, Aldeburgh (20th Aug 2018).
Fate (tbc), Installation Space, UoS, Ipswich (Jun 2017).
Inhumanity Scratched-out, Fine Art / English Collaboration, UoS (Jun 2017).
Inhumanity Series Exhibition, School of Art & Design Gallery, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan (31 May 2017).
Inhumanity Series Exhibition, Art-Expo, Shanidar Gallery, Erbil, Iraq (May 2017).
Blueshift Paradigm (auction), Waterfront Building, Ipswich (Mar 2017).
Scarred FOR Life Exhibition, Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich (Apr 2016).
Time Installation, Freudian Sheep Gallery, Ipswich (Feb 2016).
The Summer Exhibition, Prettys Solicitors (Jul-Jan 2015).
Injustice Exhibition, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London (Sept 2014).
Into the Sun Exhibition, Kersey’s (May 2014).
British Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Crypt Gallery, London (2014).
Various Exhibitions, Freudian Sheep Gallery, Ipswich (2016-2014).
Trafalgar Exhibition, Prettys Solicitors, Ipswich (2013).
Gainsborough Print Exhibition, Edmunds Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds (2013).
Tracing Britten Exhibition, The Cinema Gallery, Aldeburgh (2013).
Clockmakers Exhibition, Sotheby’s Gallery, London (2013).
Twenty-thirteen Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, Ipswich (2013).
Langlands & Bell Exhibition, Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich (2011).

Competitions

Attwells Solicitors Fine Art Competition [Shortlisted] (2016).
Just Art National Competition [Runner Up] (2014).
National Open Arts Competition [Shortlisted] (2014).
Picturing Time Competition [Shortlisted] (2013).

Commissions and public works

Awarded DigiTech / BT commission to design a sculpture for Adastral Park (Dec 2020 – April 2021)
Unmarked pages on display at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospice, Ipswich (2015).
Miracle of the Roses on display at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospice, Ipswich (2015).
The unnamed tree* on display at the University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich (2012).

Published articles, features, residencies and other stuff

Attended VG’s Stage Virtual Masterclass 24-28th February 2025) – developed ‘A Story of Blue Space Bathing’.
Sailing residency and Watch Leader aboard SY Starling (Clipper 60) sailing along the Artic Circle from Norway to Iceland (4th – 16th August 2024)
HMS article 12-2-24 and a follow-up in August HMS article 2.
Sailing residency and pilgrimage on SY Gaudeo a circumnavigation of the UK and Ireland from Woodbridge, Suffolk (1st April – 1st September 2023)
Sailing residency and pilgrimage on SY Airlie from Woolverstone, Suffolk to St. Katherine’s Dockyard, London (via Margate) and home (20th – 23rd August 2020)
Royal Academy ‘Retelling the Greek Myths in Western Art’ (16th November 2019)
Sailing residency and pilgrimage on SY Carousel from A Coruña, Galicia, Spain to Ramsholt, Suffolk (5th – 9th June 2018)
‘Record-breaking Fine Art Auction’ East Anglian Daily Times (April 3, 2017)
‘…artwork at firm’ East Anglian Daily Times (Sept 4, 2015)
‘Inspiring art…’ East Anglian Daily Times (June 23, 2014)
‘New talent’ Exposure Magazine, UCS (May 8, 2013)
Roy Lichtenstein: A retrospective, Tate Modern (Feb-Jun 2013)
SNIP: Snape’s SNAP’s little brother (June 2013)

Research Portfolio

Academic Portfolios & Texts

Jamie Limond

Artist