Sid and Jim

Sid and Jim (b. Kent and Suffolk, UK) are a London based collaboration making artworks that materialise in many different forms. They have previously produced films, sculptures, paintings, and curated exhibitions which call attention to otherwise overlooked elements of our daily lives. Their work is often influenced by fictional tropes and recognisable motifs within popular culture. They use invisibility and absence to propose situations and start stories for the viewer to invent or complete, encouraging them to fill the gaps and build their own narrative.

Their recent projects range from researching undetectable cinematic storytelling devices including matte painting and cucolorises, to imagining alternative universes through investigations into what-ifs, such as what would the landscape of cinema look like if Europe had been the epicentre of blockbuster film making as opposed to America?

Selected solo and duo exhibitions include When Worlds Collide, Stable Gallery, Hampshire (2021); Never seen and yet believed in, Gallery DODO, Brighton (2021); You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Darling, Queen's Hall Digital (2019); Hold a penny between your finger and thumb, SKELF (2017); Ad-Venture, The Vitrine Project, London (2017); Level Playing Field, The Wellness and Motivational Center, Leeds (2016).

Selected group exhibitions and projects include 10 Artists, 10 Bookmarks, fifthsyllable (2021), 1:1, WetDoveTail, Online (2020); 36th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK (2020); The New Black, Void Collective, Online (2020); something is doing we don't know what, 65-66 Country Street, London, UK (2020); Any Second Now, Brixton Beneficiary, London, UK (2020); A Black and White Christmas, Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough, UK (2019); 24th Gabrovo Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art: Dimensions of Publicness, Museum of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, BG (2019); Film as Idea, Film as Film, Film Art, Teatr Studio, Warsaw, PL (2019); The BF Artist Film Festival VIII, SET, London, UK (2019); The Age of New Babylon, The Lethaby Gallery, London, UK (2018); Reinventing the studio: how to survive as an artist in the metropolis, Tate Modern, London, UK (2018); An Exchange of Sorts, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK (2017); Leeds Digital Festival, Leeds, UK (2017); Bad Video Art Festival, A3 Gallery, Moscow, RU (2017); A Show About The Show, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK (2017); A Group Thing, Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, USA (2016); God's Own Country, Western Park Museum, Sheffield, UK (2016); Temporary Allegiance, The Knockdown Center, New York, USA (2016).

In addition to their artistic practice they have also been producing a podcast called Artists and Friends since 2016, which is primarily for reviews of exhibitions both physical and digital, interviews of artists and curators, and discussing ideas. They have also run an online project called The SketchUp Residency since 2016, which is an online project where participating artists are asked to use 3D modelling software Google SketchUp for the duration of their term.

If you were looking to follow Jim and Sid's love story click >here<, or catch up with Jimmy and Sid's folk music career click >here<, apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Sid Jim

bicknellknight@gmail.com

sidney@sidneysmith.co.uk

Founders of The SketchUp Residency, and the podcast Artists and Friends

Selected Solo/Duo Exhibitions/Projects

2024

Ljósrák - Kannski Gallery, Reykjavík - Duo Show with Helgi Vignir

2023

Fallout from a storm - Aseptic Studios, London

2022

Under Wraps (YZR M1) - Hillstreet Shopping Centre - Middlesbrough Art Weekender

When Worlds Collide - Brixton Beneficiary, London