About

James Jimbo is an artist based in Falmouth. Jimbo makes paintings, drawings and irregularly performs the interactive live drawing installation event ‘Get Your Portrait Done Here!’. His work uses humour and mundanity to reinterpret and make sense of found imagery, digital media and emotions encountered in the everyday.

Selected exhibitions:

Framed, Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery, Truro, 2025; DRAWINGS BY, Irmã Feia, Lisbon, 2025; Bits and Pieces, with The Kirkwood Brothers, Pipe Factory, Glasgow, 2022; All I Have To Do Is Dream (solo), Mount Florida Gallery, Glasgow 2019; Strictly Come Draw with James Jimbo, House For An Art Lover Residency, Glasgow, 2018; The Corpse Strikes Back, New Glasgow Society, 2018; Anonyme Zeichner 2018, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, 2018; Get Your Portrait Done Here! (solo), Secret Courtyard, Hidden Door, Edinburgh, 2015; Forecasting, Fabriksgatan, Gothenburg, 2014; Erottaa +- us, Glue Factory, Glasgow, 2013; Masters of Letters, Aalto Yliopisto, Helsinki, Finland, and Bermondsey Project Space, London, 2012-2013; Save Firstdraft, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, September 2009.

Residencies:

House for an Art Lover Summer Residencies, Glasgow, September 2018; Project Ability, Glasgow, September 2017; Open Corner, Market Gallery, Glasgow, August 2017; Fabriksgatan Studios, Gothenburg, August 2014; Locksmith Project Space, Sydney, Australia, August 2009