Jim Eyre

British born Jim Eyre trained as an interior architect, became an award-winning Creative Director before finding his home as an artist who has been exhibited and been published globally.  

Along the way he has been a business owner, a designer with Barber Osgerby, a film maker represented by Partizan, a creative designer for Sir Paul Smith and a tutor at the Royal College of Art.

Working with everything from plywood, photography, film and even balloons, Jim believes ideas should come first, then be realised in the appropriate medium.

Jim has created and been involved in a number of iconic pieces of work. These include Loop table, created while at Barber Osgerby which has permanent residency in both MoMA and the V&A and the Balloon Head window display for Paul Smith, which is still used to open new stores all around the world and inspired the front cover of Sir Paul Smith's latest book.

'I experience the act of seeing as an act of creation, a bringing-into-existence.

To see everything -- but feel nothing -- is a commonplace experience for me in an overwhelming and visually stimulated world.

Inanimate objects, and their occurrences in my images, are given life through my willingness to observe what's commonly perceived as nothing. These material things that can be seen and touched are able create their own energy and a control over their destinies; interacting as if they have a secret life free of human intervention.

Yet, the truth is these 'things' do not have their own stories. Instead, they become imbued with my thoughts. By rendering their nonsensical occurrence, I make meaning by projection. I have no choice but to attempt to reconcile the mysteries found in these scenes. They want to be ignored, but I am attracted to their vulnerability.

These objects of the everyday beckon me into an uncomfortable interaction. Within this dialogue that is created, I am able to visualize the uncomfortable happiness of an existence that surrounds us and that we all carry within.' - Jim Eyre