James Tovey
James Tovey (b 1971) is an artist, illustrator and craftsman whose work has centered around human activity, impact and environment.[1][2]
Early Life[edit]
He attended Clifton College, Bristol where his artwork won a number of school awards and prizes[3][4][5]. Taking part as artist on a conservation expedition to Mount Kenya in 1990, some of the sign posts and instruction graffiti he helped make to aid fellow visitors to the alpine zone appeared in photographs in a 1991 book, On God's Mountain.[6]
Illustration and Artworks[edit]
From 1998 to 2000 Tovey made archaeological illustrations which were published in some of the English Heritage commissioned Humber Wetlands Project publications. With encouragement from the project leadership, he experimented with trying digital methods for making artifact and reconstruction illustrations as an alternative to pen and ink drawings which were standard practice at that time. The most notable result being a reconstruction drawing of an Iron Age wetland fort entrance at Sutton Common, published in the Observer newspaper during 1999 and used by English Heritage online.[7][8][9]
From the early 2000s he lived near Peterborough and produced imagery for magazines.[5] His environmental interests were reflected in his painting which he submitted to national open exhibitions including the RWA, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Peterborough Open, as well as taking part in contemporary art exhibitions and events.[10][11][12]
In 2010, Classic Boat Magazine ran a competition seeking ideas for a small sail powered fishing vessel. Fellow IBTC students Martin Hill and James Tovey entered an eco fishing boat design. The judges criticised the design's excessive use of tumble home that could make the boat topsides planking vulnerable to damage as well as making the boat difficult to operate as a fishing craft, their design came in joint third in the published prize winners, James Wharrem's eco built catamaran obtaining first place.[2] The competition coincided with changes in EU regulations for sustainable fisheries allowing de-regulation of non motor powered fishing craft. This at a time when an initiative for making smaller sustainable fishing boats was being discussed in the House of Commons.[13]
Public Space Projects
In 2013 as preparation for a new stone sculpture, a drawing was commissioned by Rev William Burke on behalf of St Kyneburgha Building Preservation Trust to show how such a statue would look and fit in the vacant alcove above the southern priest's door of the Grade 1 listed Church of St Kyneburgha at Castor, near Peterborough. As specified in the commission, Tovey took the design from the statue of St Kyneburgha on the West front of Peterborough Cathedral and placed in her hands a proposed design of an early Saxon period church. The task was then given to master stonemason Mark Sharpin, who made and installed an 'appropriately primative' sculpture above the priest's door in 2015.[14]
In 2016, his concept for a 'Future Floodlands' stage set was built in front of Peterborough Cathedral. Six plays were performed on the stage about environmental themes by Eastern Angles Theatre Company during the Peterborough Green Festival in August of that year. The stage was situated within Peterborough Cathedral grounds including a specially brewed beer in support of the event by Peterborough microbrewery Castor Ales.[1][15] He built a number of wooden circular 'henges' and other structures in public spaces and exhibitions during 2016.[16][17] This led to a follow up event to 'Future Floodlands' called, 'The Debris Navigator', being funded by organisation The Big Local, with a community arts installation and finale event planned at Westraven Community Garden, Peterborough.[18] Completed for the Peterborough Environment and City Trust Green Festival of 2017, the newly laid out garden and wooden constructions from the arts project were later visited by the UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove[19].
In 2018 a large painting called Mermaid with Mahi-Mahi and Ocean Plastic from one of his Peterborough City Centre installations Plastic Native Temple was also exhibited in Peterborough Cathedral; part of an engagement area for visitors and school children to run alongside the Gaia installation of a large rotating representation of Planet Earth by the artist Luke Jerram. [1][20]
Holy Cross Day
In 2019 and alongside his wife, Tovey attended Waltham Abbey's Holy Cross Day. Organised by Waltham Abbey History Society, the procession celebrates the carrying of a holy relic from Somerset to Waltham and the founding of the church by Tovi the Proud, an Anglo-Scandinavian land owner, thegn and Staller in the court of Cnut the Great.[21]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Barns, Brad (January 31, 2020). "Peterborough artists open pop-up studio in Queensgate". www.Peterboroughtoday.co.uk. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Eco Fishing Boat Competition Prizewinners". Classic Boat Magazine. July 2010.
- ↑ "Praise for prize art". The Mercury, Bristol. March 23, 1990.
- ↑ Breton, Charles (March 16, 1990). "Talented Youngsters". Evening Post, Bristol.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "In Depth Art News". Absolute Arts. June 9, 2002. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Amin, Willets and Tetley (1991). On God's Mountain, The Story of Mount Kenya. Ashbourne, UK: Moorland Publishing Company Ltd. pp. 112, 165. ISBN 0-86190-393-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Mckie, Robin (October 24, 1999). "Bog yields up gateway to death". The Observer. UK News.
- ↑ Van de Noort and Ellis (2000). Wetland Heritage of the Hull Valley (in UK English). Kingston upon Hull: University of Hull. ISBN 0-85958-195-0.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) Search this book on
- ↑ Pratty, John (July 26, 2002). "Ghostly Iron Age Village Revealed By English Heritage Dig". Culture24.org.uk. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Royal Academy of Arts (2006). Summer Exhibition 2006 List of Works. Piccadilly, London, UK.: RA Publications. Search this book on
- ↑ The Newsroom (April 17, 2019). "See the work of Peterborough artists at the city's 2019 Open Exhibition. Celebrating art, nationally and internationally, Vivacity's Open Exhibition has returned to Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery for the fourth year". Peterborough Telegraph. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
- ↑ Moore, Charlotte (June 1, 2021). "Look around the RESTART exhibition at Peterborough Museum". www.peterboroughmatters.co.uk. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Eco Fishing Boat Design". November 2, 2009. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Castor Church Trust. "ST KYNEBURGHA STATUE EXPLAINED". www.castorchurchtrust.co.uk/. Retrieved January 8, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Newsroom (August 19, 2016). "Microbrewer's special monsterale for Green Festival". www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk. Retrieved September 18, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ The Newsroom (September 30, 2016). "Anne Frank exhibition". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ↑ "Astronomical Art connects the Green Backyard to the Cosmos". www.pect.org.uk. December 20, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ CAMRA, Peterborough (October 2017). "Beer Round 'Ere - 197, p12". CAMRA Peterborough. Retrieved October 6, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Lamy, Joel (February 4, 2019). "Environment Secretary Michael Gove praises Peterborough's eco-credentials on visit to community project". Peterborough Today. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ BBC - NEWS (September 17, 2019). "Peterborough Cathedral Gaia Earth: The world in your hands". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved September 18, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hastings, Hannah (May 8, 2019). "Waltham Abbey's Holy Cross Day procession lead by ancestor of Tovi the Proud". This is Local London. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
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