James Critchlow (b. 2001) is a UK-based artist working at the intersection of photography, sculpture, and digital media. With a focus on the fading boundary between virtual and physical realms, his work explores how space is recorded, translated, and reconstructed across different modes of production.
Within his practice, the digital becomes sculptural and the sculptural becomes digital, with the photograph often acting as a point of exchange. Through this process, the photograph is treated not as a final product, but as a material to be manipulated both digitally and physically. Addressing its condition in the age of algorithms and machine learning, the photograph is understood as data: a component within a system, a starting point.
Moving fluidly between digital manipulation and physical construction, Critchlow’s work is often situated between image and object. Shifting through iterative transformations, it is repeatedly manipulated, deconstructed, and translated. In this process of constant flux, his work ultimately resolves when surfaces collapse, dimensions blur, and spatial logic is disrupted.
