ABOUT
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Sarah James is a visual artist working across a range of lens based media including live visuals, moving image and photography. Her work is an exploration of light, colour, texture and pattern; inspired by the natural world but reinterpreted, dismantled, looped and delayed. She uses an array of analogue film and photographic equipment, digital software and imaging techniques, exploiting their quirks and limitations, creating fever dreams of hypnotic and unearthly worlds.
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Sarah is based in Bristol, UK. As well as collaborating with local musicians and artists, including EP/64, Harpoon, Laura Phillips, Ocean Floor, Stereocilia, and Zoobers, she is part of the AV project RAINBOW YAWN with musician Deej Dhariwal. ​​​
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LIVE VISUAL PERFORMANCES
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2023
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13/01/23 - Live visual installation 'Winter Bizarre': Lost & Grounded Brewery, Bristol
2021
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19/09/21 - 'Spectral Gateway' collaboration, live visuals w/ Florence Richardson (visuals), Daniel Garcia (sound), The Reverse Engineer (sound): Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh
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20/06/21 - Harpoon, live visuals: The Lanes, Bristol
2020
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28/10/20 - 'The Piano' (month long residency + performance), live visuals w/ Manu Maunganidze (sculpture + concept), Yas Clarke (sound design), Joe Evans (sound design): Strange Brew Bristol
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15/09/20 - Iceman Furniss Quartet, live visuals: The Lanes, Bristol
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28/02/20 - RAINBOW YAWN + Thought Forms DJ Set: Lost and Grounded Brewery, Bristol
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01/02/20 - EP/64 ft Ben Vince, GERM 3(D), live visuals: The Island, Bristol
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2019
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16/11/19 - Guy Metcalfe, live visuals: The Cube Microplex, Bristol
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09/11/19 - Live visual installation: Lost & Grounded Brewery, Bristol
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18/10/19 - RAINBOW YAWN - Simple Things Festival supporting William Basinski, Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand: Bristol IMAX
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22/06/19 - RAINBOW YAWN, Toilet Fest 2019: Dan Johnson's toilet, Bristol
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28/02/19 - RAINBOW YAWN - Frenz Vs. Fire Fundraiser w/ EP/64, Marcy, Frank & Beans, Fat Paul DJ: The Exchange, Bristol
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01/02/19 - RAINBOW YAWN - supporting Alexander Tucker + Shiver: The Cube Microplex, Bristol
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2018
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15/12/18 - EP/64, live visual collaboration with Laura Phillips: The Brunswick Club, Bristol
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15/11/18 - RAINBOW YAWN - Silencio. An evening of ambient music: Cafe Kino, Bristol
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15/09/18 - EP/64, live visuals: The Crofters Rights, Bristol
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27/10/18 - Totality Fuckery Witchcraft Halloween All Dayer, live visuals: The Old England, Bristol
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12/05/18 - Thought Forms + Stereocilia + Vena Cava, live visuals: The Lexington, London
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23/02/18 - BURL + PUSS, live visuals: The Old England, Bristol
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22/02/18 - Jim Ghedi + dbh + Agathe Max, live visuals: Cafe Kino, Bristol
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2017
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25/11/17 - Stereocilia Album Launch w/ EP/64, live visuals w/ Becca Lewis: The Cube Microplex, Bristol
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17/11/17 - Dubi Dolczek Album Launch w/ Paddy Steer, live visuals w/ Becca Lewis: All Hallows Hall, Bristol
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04/11/17 - Ocean Floor Album Launch, live visuals: The Cube Microplex, Bristol
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07/10/17 - EP/64 Album Launch, live visuals: Roll for the Soul, Bristol
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06/10/17 - Webster/Graham Dunning Duo + COIMS + Winter Ghost + Adi, live visuals w/ Becca Lewis: The Old England Bristol
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03/08/17 - EP/64, live visuals: The Crypt, Bristol
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30/07/17 - Bloom presents Cloudshoes, EP/64, PonPon and Lot Grundy, live visuals w/ STILL JAM: The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol
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