Fail Better

Fail Better is a catalogue of selected artworks by British-born artist James R Ford with accompanying texts interviews and essays from 2008-2013. Forever playfully exploring the intimate relationships between physical media and everyday life: Ford's investigations into and reflections on existential nature and the use of conventional materials and modes of presentation reveal countless nuanced contradictions as well as a fascination with process and the filling-in of time. While mostly a creator of laboured drawings well considered objects and videos Ford also provides us with scenarios that have us pondering over the mundane and/or acting out the absurd as he invites us to look deeper into his works and what is taking place around us. Justin Jade Morgan 2013