Dr James Frew is an artist, teacher, writer, and academic. He currently teaches on the Art and Design Foundation course with OnCampus Southampton, in association with Winchester School of Art. As an educator he lectures widely on art and culture, whilst also possessing a keen interest in pedagogy and its evolving manifestations within practice-based learning; specifically, the interplay between theory and praxis.
As an artist he exhibits regularly and maintains an international collector base. Since 2015 he has been represented by the Glasgow gallery Art Pistol. His recent work explores post-digital art practices through the creation of what he calls ‘digipaintages’ – hybrids of digital paintings and photomontages manifest as both digitally circulated images and physical objects.
Frew completed his practice-based PhD in painting at The Glasgow School of Art in 2021 and is an active researcher – he has published original writing featured in The Journal of Contemporary Painting (2024) and the book PhotographyDigitalPainting (2020). In 2016 he was awarded the John Mather Rising Star Scholarship for his research into expanded field painting, and in 2017 The Glasgow School of Art’s Chairman’s Medal.
