About
Tom James is an artist and writer, living in London, UK. He creates participatory projects where real people can learn real skills, imagine new ways of living, and get their hands dirty to give them a try. For the last five years, his work has mainly been concerned with the climate emergency, and how to act in and against the miserable future we’re creating for our children.
Tom’s work has been featured across the British press, whilst his cult fanzine about Sheffield, 'GO!', is part of the permanent collection of the V&A.
Tom is a trustee of Metroland Cultures, an arts charity that helps make culture with, for and about the people of Brent. From 2012 - 2019, Tom was part of Spacemakers, a utopian regeneration agency, which aimed to get inside the machinery of urban regeneration, and use it for good instead of evil.
The Firewatchers is commissioned by the London Borough of Bexley as part of the Night Visions Festival, and produced by Three Rivers Bexley, Emergency Exit Arts and Lightfires, with support from Arts Council England Creative People And Places programme
Night Visions is part of Celebrating Bexley – a yearlong programme that celebrates arts and culture in Bexley, marking a number of significant anniversaries including the Council’s 60th anniversary, 100 years of Danson Park, 160 years of Crossness Engines and 500 years since Lesnes Abbey was closed.