Emerging artist and media practitioner based in Poole, Dorset, with a growing interest in immersive storytelling, photography, moving image, and environmental themes.
He explores how art can evoke reflection on loss, change, and our connection to the natural world, particularly through documentary, installation, and projection. His work is influenced by a fascination with impermanence and the emotional response to crisis. James recently graduated from Bournemouth University studying BA (Hons) Media Production.
James Killick
My work leans into the idea of life borrowing from death, a fragile boundary that defines our existence. A line that can only be crossed once, I explore the impermanence of existence. Through immersive media, documentary storytelling, and projection, I confront the inevitable - the slow, often unseen process of loss, decay, and transformation.
Cryosphere allowed me to connect to the frozen landscapes of glaciers, and I met the realisation that they are monuments to extinction and change. They bear witness to a warming world where time itself melts away.
Within this work, I was channelling the quiet urgency of loss, of the natural world, community, and ultimately how it affects humanity. Reflecting on how we face a future shadowed by death and decline, and yet still holds a fragile beauty that demands reverence and reflection.
Exploring the human psyche’s response to crisis, exploring vulnerability and the unravelling of expectation within society. A platform for empathy, elevating the viewer to empowerment, confronting the idea of change in a meaningful way, removing them from the firing line of blame.
Through documentary and immersive forms, I want to continue exploring how life borrows from death, how nature mirrors us, and how climate change threads through it all.