CV

Curriculum Vitae
James Geurts


Born:      Australia
Phone:    +61 408 173 618

Email:     james@jamesgeurts.com
Web:       http://www.jamesgeurts.com
 
Education:

1991:     Degree: Swinburne University, Melbourne
              Three year full time program. Majors in Art History, Drawing and Photography.

2009:     Masters of Fine Arts, Media Art: RMIT University, Melbourne
              Two Year full time scholarship. Project focused on expanded drawing practices on human/hydrokinetic relations.

Exhibitions/Events:

2010    Drawing Tectonic, Morecella, Italy
            Ephemeral land-art event on fault-line, day of an earthquake
2009    Ecologies: Re-mix, Data Ecologies, FoAM, Brussels
           
Sound/drawing event in collaboration with Foton sound artists
2009    Drawing Tide #06, 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, China
            Duration drawing installation, based on the time of the incoming tide of the Bo Hai Sea, China
2009    Psychogeography, Periphery, Project Space, Melbourne
            Weather drawing working with chemical photographic processes on-site

2009    Blue Print, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
            Masters of Fine Art Exhibition, Installation on expanded drawing practice.
2008    Drawing Field #02, La Chambre Blanche, Artist Residency and exhibition, Quebec, Canada
            In-situ artists residency program, site-specific weather works, relating to gallery installation on human/hydrokinetic relations.
2008    Findings, video drawing installation, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
            An exhibition of experimental practice by Postgraduate Research Candidates in the School of Art.
            Curated by Associate Professor Lesley Duxbury & PhD Candidate Lisa Byrne.
2008    Artesian, 24 Hour Art, Darwin
            Site-specific multi-screen video project in the Great Artesian Basin region. Funded by the Australian Film Commission.
Producer,
            Julie Ryan, Writer, Dr Linda Marie Walker, Instrumental Composer, Caerwen Martin,
Electronic sounds by Foton, (Brussels)
2008    Line Drawing, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
            Curated by Dr Linda Marie Walker, Interdisciplinary installation/performance/publication, engaging with notions of line,
            spatiality and drawing. Tide-Drawing series of durational drawing events.
2008   
Material River, 2020, Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne
           
Drawing and video installation. Curated by Ash Keating, land-fill was re-directed to a gallery to be developed into artworks.
2008    Tract, video installation, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
            Multi-screened video installation based on abstraction and the Australian Landscape
2007    WestSpace Gallery, Melbourne
2007    Drawing Field #01, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
            Experiments into expended drawing practice through durational photographic and video projects
2007    90 Degrees Equatorial project, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
            Land-Art Project, which took place at four sites equally spaced 90 Degrees apart on the equator, six hour apart.
            Photography, drawing, sculpture, installation and video
2007    Bridge Drawing Water, There Forever Ephemeral Public Art Project Commission
            Site-specific Drawing-Sound Performance taking place in a tidal port river, a large Draw-Bridge opens for a small

            row-boat at
high-tide, dusk. Aqua microphones are connected to the oars and project sound into the port from a near-by  
            Lighthouse. A depth-sounder drawing device recorded the movement through the river through sound waves on paper.
            http://ensemble.va.com.au/thereforever/
2007    Salt Drawing Lake, Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide
            Ephemeral land-art drawing project as video. Drawing a line across Salt Lake Frome, South Australia in a light aircraft.
            Lake Frome has a special luminosity, which allows it to be viewed from outer space.
2007    Always Forever, Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide
            In-camera abstract video made at a disused drive-inn at Alice Springs
2007    Good Evening Song #01 +#02, Delicatessen Gallery, Adelaide, Project Space Gallery, Melbourne
            Sound/drawing/video performance with Johannes Sistermanns (Cologne), Dr Linda Marie Walker (Adelaide)
2006    Bastards of Paradise, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
            Installation of abstract, site-specific works that combine photography, light-boxes, chemical drawings, video and drawing.
2006    Dutch Under, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam.
            An installation of video and tidal-based photo-drawing montages as light-boxes.
2006    Tidemark #02, Amsterdam
            Site-specific drawing project. Large scale photo-drawing montages were made at 5 sites, mapping a shape around    
            Amsterdam. The works were then posted up (interventionist bill boards) at each site as sea-level signifiers
2006    Gravitas, Project 3, Adelaide Festival of Arts
            Commissioned video installation on the street.
2006    SPAN Gallery, Melbourne
2006    Picnic, Conical Gallery, Melbourne
            Site-specific video at an industrial cooling-pond picnic site.
2005    Limbo, Federation Square, Melbourne Arts Festival, 2004 Luminosity Public Art Program, Adelaide
            Site-specific, in-camera abstract video of a tree in drought affected dry river bed, Alice Springs.
            http://www.anat.org.au/luminosity
2005    Suburban Edge, Submerge, 24 Hour Art, Darwin
2005    Microcosm, Moving Image Festival, Adelaide
2005    White-Wash, Adelaide Film Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia
2004    Tidemark, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
            Durational in-camera drawing/photo-montages as light-boxes. Based at tidal sites in South Australia and Victoria.
2004    Microcosm, video installation, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2004    Isle of Refuge, 3 Years to Life, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide
            Highlights the plight of asylum seekers in detention centers in Australia and the South Pacific.
2004    Blue velvet,
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art Adelaide
            Photo-light box street installation.
2004    Suburban Edge, Submerge, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2004    Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2004    Reception, Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
            Installation of video, sound and photo-drawing montages as light-boxes. Cello-Caerwen Martin
2004    Span Gallery, Melbourne
2003    Shellfish/man, AIFF, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
            3-stage abstract video exploring human relationship with the ocean.
2002    Residue Screening, ACMI program Brisbane, Melbourne, street video installation, SALA Festival, Adelaide
2003    Sink city, SALA Festival, Adelaide
            Large scale street video installation with live trumpeter. Live-feed, in-camera abstracted video from Venice.
2003    Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
2003    Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2002-4 6ft and Clean, Gold Coast City Art Gallery Touring Exhibition: 10 Galleries throughout Australia.
2002    Arid Arcadia, Art of the Flinders, Art Gallery of South Australia
2002    Slipstream, Mass Gallery, Next Wave Festival Melbourne
            Experimental photography and video installation.
2002    Precipice, Melbourne
            Commissioned psycho-geography painting, 12mx3m 
2002    Ark, Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide
            Installation- Video, photo-montage, drawing. Developed in set of Tracker Feature Film in Arkaroola, Flinders Ranges.
2002    Toying with Paradise, Experimenta, Nova Cinema, Melbourne Arts Festival
2001    Road Map, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Adelaide
            A two-year land-art project, drawing a line around the fringe of the Australian coastline. Drawing/photo-montages.
2001    Accord,
3MBS Radio Commission, Melbourne Concert Hall,  Melbourne
            Video projection with live performance by The State Orchestra of Victoria, Conductor Richard Divall.
2000    Toying with Paradise, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Symposiums/Conferences:

2009    The Alternative Space and Beyond, ARTspace, New Media, CAA Conference Los Angeles
            Presented paper and performance on 90 Degrees Equatorial Project.
2008    Living/Being in Between, Symposium, The American University, Girne, Cyprus
            Drawing Inland Sea, split-screen video together with Dr Linda Marie Walker presenting Paper, On the Side of Life
2008    Public Poetics:Politics, Space and (Im)material Practices, Symposium, Adelaide
            Drawing Installation at University of South Australia Gallery.
2008    Art and Cartography International Symposium, Vienna
            Presented paper and exhibition on 90 Degrees Equatorial Project.
2007    Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban History and Theory.
            24th International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)
            Drawing Inland Sea, split-screen video together with Dr Linda Marie Walker presenting Paper, On the Side of Life

Grants/ Commissions:

2008    La Chambre Blanche, Artist Residency and exhibition, Quebec, Canada
2008    Art and Cartography International Symposium, Vienna, by RMIT University
2007    Drawing Inland Sea, split-screen video, 24th International Conference (SAHANZ) and University of South Australia
2007    Bridge Drawing Water, There Forever Ephemeral Public Art Project Commission, Arts S.A.
2007    Embassy, Curated guerilla public video project, University of South Australia
2006    Gravitas, public video projection, Project 3, Adelaide Festival of the Arts
2006    Tidemark #02, site-specific project, Amsterdam, Arts S.A.
2006    90 Degrees Equatorial Project, site-specific land-art project, Vertigo Productions, Arts SA
2006    Still Landing, Butoh dance/video in the Tanami Desert, Victoria University
2005    Limbo, public video projection, Federation Square, Melbourne Arts Festival, 2004 Luminosity Public Art Program,
            Adelaide, ANAT and Adelaide City Council
2004    Reception, video/light-box installation, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art; Art Gallery of South Australia
2004    Artesian, multi-screen video installation, Australian Film Commission
2003    Artesian, multi-screen video installation, Australia Council for the Arts
2003    Ars Elecronica, Austria, funding from ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology)
2001    Accord, video projection/collaboration with State Orchestra of Victoria, Melbourne Concert Hall, 3MBS


Essays:

2009    Dr Julie Bacon, Beyond Interpretation and Judgment: Writing the Story of Art, La Chambre Blanche
2008    Dr Linda Marie Walker, Drawing Moves, Tract, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2008    Adrien Allen, Bianca Hester, Anthony Gardner, Fayen d’Evie  After the Event, 2020, Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne
2008    Fayen d’Evie, Waste not want not? Dirty secrets and fetish for trash… 2020, Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne
2008    Dr Domenico De Clario, Drawing in; Drawing out. Line Drawing, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2008    Dr Linda Marie Walker, Line Heart Drawing, Line Drawing, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2008    Dr Teri Hoskins, On the ground (drawing transition), Line Drawing, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2008    Dr Linda Marie Walker, Artesian, 24HourArt Gallery, Darwin
2007    Russell Storer, 90 Degrees Equatorial Project, Experimental Art Foundation
2007    Dr Linda Marie Walker, Drawing Field, Queensland Centre for Photography
2007    Dr Linda Marie Walker, Giving oneself time (For Life), 90 Degrees Equatorial Project, Experimental Art Foundation
2007    Dr Linda Marie Walker, And the Open bridge, Bridge Drawing Water, There Forever Ephemeral Public Art Project
2006    Ken Bolton, Between Elegy and Resolve - testing the weather, Bastards of Paradise, Greenaway Art Gallery
2006    Andrew Best, Beta Churns the Caribbean, Bastards of Paradise, Greenaway Art Gallery
2004    Brett Adlington, (Curator, Gold Coast City Gallery), Tidemark,
Tidemark, Greenaway Art Gallery
2004    Alasdair Forster, (Director, ACP), There is more here than meets the eye, Tidemark, Greenaway Art Gallery
2004    Mehmet Adi, Reception, Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia


Reviews:

2009    Anne-Lise Griffon, Reflets de Québec, Inter Magazine 103, pp.64-65 Québec City
2008    Nathalie Côté, Pour une poétique de l'eau (For a poetic of water) - La Presse Quebec
            http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-soleil/arts-et-spectacles/expositions/200811/27/01-805132-pour-une-poetique-de-leau.php
2008    Jared Davis,  2020? -2020 Magazine
2007    Tristan Louth-Robins, Good Evening Song - The Soniferous Garden
2007    Samara Mitchell, Framing the World, 90 Degrees Equatorial Project – RealTime Arts
            http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue79/8615
2007    Virginia Baxter, Here Today Gone Tomorrow, There Forever Public Art Project – RealTime Arts
            http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue79/8579
2007    Ian Hamilton, 90 Degrees Equatorial - Artlink
2007    Alasdair Forster, 90 Degrees Equatorial Project – Photofile
2006    Samara Mitchell, Project3, Street Cinema, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Realtime Arts
            http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue72/8084
2004    Alex McDonald, Suburban Edge ACP exhibition-review State of the Arts
2004    John Neylon, 6ft + clean: surf + art, University of South Australia Art Museum. The Adelaide Review
            http://www.adelaidereview.com.au/archives/2004_05/visualarts_story1.shtml
2004    Samara Mitchell, Limbo, Luminosity Public Video - Filter ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) magazine
            http://luminosity.anat.org.au/JamesGeurts/Limbo.htm
2004    John Nelon, Reception, 2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 
2004    Kathy Stevens, Slip Stream - Realtime
2001    John Nelon, Road Map, The Adelaide Review 
2001    Wendy Walker, Road Map, The Advertiser 

Collections:

Canvas International Art, Amsterdam; Open Realization Art Centre Beijing, China; La Chambre Blanche Gallery, Quebec; Art Gallery of South Australia; Gold Coast City Gallery; Wollongong City Art Gallery; Festival Arts Centre Adelaide; Greenaway Art Gallery; Maunsell Hughes Gallery; Flinders University City Gallery; Pat Corrigan Collection; Kleimeyer Stuart Collection, The Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada, Center for Art + Environment.