Jim Ever is the recipient of the 2025 Yorkshire Graduate Award, a unique residency opportunity for a recent graduate from a Yorkshire-based university. Residencies have always been at the heart of YSP, offering opportunities for early career and emerging artists to reflect and move forward with their practice.
Ever recently graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a BA in Fine Art. Their multi-disciplinary practice spans sound, collage, assemblage, image-making, video, installation, and sculpture. His work often brings together unexpected materials, exploring the relationship between analogue and digital technologies, and finding new conversations between traditional and experimental methods.
The artist will spend two weeks in residence at YSP in January 2026. Ever hopes to take inspiration from the Park’s natural landscape and historic trees to develop new work that reimagines our relationship with nature. He plans to experiment with image-making, projection and sound to produce a large-scale, audio-visual installation for display in Spring 2026.
YSP is a place I have visited many times over the years and has made a significant contribution to the foundation of my practice. My first exposure to Barbara Hepworth’s work was at YSP, and I was inspired by how her The Family of Man sculptures ‘stood’ amongst the trees; they felt like almost an extension of the environment itself. Being offered the opportunity to return as a visiting artist is hugely fulfilling, and I believe this will be a major milestone in my practice. I’m looking forward to spending time on site to explore and reinterpret the landscape through my own approaches, and to have the opportunity to experiment.
