James Chantry is an artist and academic. 

 

His practice explores the links between the supernatural and queer identity.  Utilising fragments of heritage to form a symbiotic relationship, he produces film and installation work that incorporates: performance, drawing, animation, sculpture, photography, sound and found materials.  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 and countryside.  His aim is to create new worlds from the past, that considers: auto-ethnography, psychogeography, the supernatural, science fiction, politics of land and history, in the context of queer futurity- kinship and community.

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