Linda Mary James (born 1951, Birmingham, England[1]) is an established artist who has been working in New Zealand for over twenty-five years.
Linda James regularly exhibits her work and recent solo exhibitions include Out of the Chaos: Precious Lives (2007), New Zealand: Sleep in the Forest/Dreams of the Sea (2007), Love Story, Precious Lives II (2009) and Fallen (2010) all at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Christchurch, New Zealand.
[3] In 1989 James was the recipient of the Olivia Spencer Bower Award, a residency directed specifically at emerging artists.
[5] Location continues to be an important element for James, and throughout her career the geographic context of New Zealand is evident within her work.
[6][7] These images are frequently figurative, such as her re-presentations of the portraits of Iraqi soldiers taken from newspapers[8] or scenes of voluptuous and entangled bodies from classical and Renaissance art works, such as in her Discord/ Out of the Chaos series.