James Chantry is an artist, writer and academic. 

 

His current practice and research explores the links between the supernatural, land and queer identity. Utilising fragments of heritage to form a symbiotic relationship, he produces installation work that incorporates: performance, drawing, animation, sculpture, photography, sound, found materials, text and writing. In recent work the literary ghost story, mediumship and folklore are thematic frameworks, alongside specific geographic locations. In particular queering liminal wildernesses, such as fenland, coast, marsh and the edge lands between city/town and countryside. His aim is to create new worlds from the past, that considers: autoethnography, psychogeography, the supernatural, science fiction, ecology, politics of land and history, in the context of queer futurity- kinship and community.

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