James Earley produces abstracted figurative works that bring together traditions of painting, design and stained glass art.

James Earley (b.1981), is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.  Earley’s practice is rooted in graffiti, graphic design and his family’s heritage in stained glass. He creates artworks that are timeless in their aesthetic and rich in their conceptual narrative. 

The pieces are produced using digital tools to create analogue artworks. Fusing computer-aided fabrication with traditional hand-made techniques, he embraces technology to create complex, layered, highly charged compositions. Earley’s principle aesthetic focus is to visualise deconstructed stained glass windows, where the architectural forms of the window (lead, glass) hang in suspended tension, depicted through a graphic language of line, colour and halftone forms.

Earley’s work deals with wide ranging themes of power, societal imbalances, religion, politics and ultimately, the inhumanity of man. His artworks are a visual meditation and reflection of these themes.