Education
He studied at the Bournville College of Artist
performance artist Professor of Fine
He studied at the Bournville College of Artist
The Swimmer is a seminal moment in video. Its use of time and fragmentation employing the analogue methodologies and equipment, which were the only ones available in 1990, and the site sensitive sculptural qualities of its installation predicting contemporary developments in video installation. In a process the artist describes as ‘sculpture in time’ his multi–channel video installations capture his subjects in a ‘sliver of time’ – moving yet frozen for all eternity, self-consciously entrapped by the technological paraphernalia, which a video work requires to deliver its message.
In 1984 Marty Street.James contributed to VIDEO ART: the early years with a performance for the British/Canadian Video Exchange, A Space / American Red Cross, Toronto.
In 2007 his multi-monitor video art installation, The Swimmer (sitter: Olympian Duncan Goodhew) was added to the Primary collection of the United Kingdom"s National Portrait Gallery, the video portraits of works Julie Walters and Sally Burgess are in the gallery"s reference collection. Marty was a judge in the Art Category for the UjADF Award 2010 United Kingdom-Japan Art Design Film Award 2010.
In 2012 Marty had his second exhibition in China "Marty Street James" at the Iron Curtain Gallery.
Marty Street.James is a member of CREAC the "centre for research in electronic art and communication" part of the "The Fine Art Practices Group".