Working in a variety of media and particularly performance and video, Jim Lockey makes work about low-level anxiety. Discussing the concerns, neuroses and paranoia that plague his everyday. Jim is interested by these seemingly arbitrary, peripheral concerns of human existence as often they do more to affect our thinking and actions than larger scale personal and social issues.

  For instance his work Cultured Television questioned what role television really plays in our lives and how much we are manipulated by it.

   Jim often, though not exclusively uses humour as a device to discuss these themes. This reflects the way that jokes are used by many, as coping mechanisms for anxieties or employed to navigate awkward social situations. Jim is interested in the possibility of how a person’s ‘sense of humour’ is a reflection of their sense of being.

He is also co-founder and editor of Duck & Cover magazine: A monthly publication of art writing, and presenter on the Emergency Broadcast System podcast.