Jaime Welsh
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2022
1994
Portugal
Madragoa
Jaime Welsh’s highly-constructed photographs – often of clinical, official interiors – depict figures in architectural space as allegories for anxious or tense psychological ones. Anxiety is the modern condition, after all. His project is the formal relationship between humans and architectural space and the evocation of psychological interiority through photography.
Jaime Welsh was born in 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal. He lives and works in London, where he graduated from Goldsmiths MFA (2018-2021) as a scholarship recipient of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Goldsmiths, University of London. Recent projects have been exhibited at Madragoa (Lisbon, PT); Firstsite Museum (Essex, Uk); White Cube (London, UK); Castor Gallery (London, UK); Saatchi Gallery (London, UK); Galleria Municipal de Arte de Almada (Almada, PT); Piccadilly Lights (London, UK); Candid Arts Trust (London, UK); Galeria Graça Brandão (Porto, PT); Gallery 46 Whitechapel (London, UK); The Old Police Station Art Centre (London, UK); Copeland Gallery (London, UK); Galeria Municipal de Torres Vedras (Torres Vedras, PT) and Tate Exchange at Tate Modern (London, UK). Upcoming projects include a solo exhibition in Casa da Cerca (Almada, PT) in 2022. Recent awards include New Contemporaries 2021; Tomorrow by White Cube 2021 and Circa Art Class of 2020. Jaime Welsh's work has been reviewed in Frieze Magazine, Elephant magazine; Jornal Expresso, Homoculture and Umbigo Magazine among other publications. His work is present in public and private collections, such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Coleção António Cachola.
Jaime Welsh
excerpt of the artist's interview with Sean Burns for the exhibition For Laura (Madragoa, Lisbon, 2021)
A single figure appears slumped on a run of orange, padded chairs, gazing blankly into the interior garden of an institution. The exact figure (...) appears reflected in the glass panes of a wood-panelled booth in what looks like an empty conference suite.
Jaime Welsh’s highly-constructed photographs – often of clinical, official interiors – depict figures in architectural space as allegories for anxious or tense psychological ones. ...
Jaime Welsh, 'For Laura', installation view at Madragoa, Lisbon
Jaime Welsh, 'For Laura', installation view at Goldsmiths Degree Show, London,2021
