CV

Curriculum Vitae

James Geurts


Born:    Australia

Phone: +61 408 173 618 (Australian) 

Phone: +31 685037723 (Dutch)

Email:   james@jamesgeurts.com 

Web:    http://www.jamesgeurts.com
 

Academic Details:
2009     Masters of Fine Arts, Media Art: RMIT University, Melbourne
   
            Expanded drawing practices.
 
1991     Degree: Swinburne University, Melbourne
   
            Art History, Drawing and Photography.



Future Exhibitions/Events:
2012    Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia



2011     Projectspace, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
     



Exhibitions/Events:
2011    
Tract, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

            Drawing: Subteranean, Video installation. GEMAK, The Hague, Netherlands
   
            Drawing: Amplitude, Kinetic Light installation. DCR Studios, The Hague, Netherlands

            Drawing: on Thresholds II, Musrara, Jerusalem Art, Israel
   
            Art residency, DCR Studios, The Hague, Netherlands
   
            Drawing: on Thresholds, Research project on water in Israel/Palestine. Center for Contemporary Art, Israel
            


2010     Vanishing Point (Drawing Appearance): Zeene River Project, Nadine, Artist Residency, Brussels
       

            Drawing Horizon, presentation. CCC, Istanbul, Turkey
   
            The Clearing, 3RD Annual This is Not a Gateway Festival, London
   
            Drawing Horizon, Site-specific, time-specific installation. Satellietgroep, The Hague, Netherlands
   
            Drawing Field Transmission, Public Video installation. Drawing Out, Federation Square, RMIT, University of the Arts London
   
            Drawing Tectonic, Ephemeral land-art event on fault-line, day of an earthquake. Morecella, Italy
   
            Ecologies: Re-mix, Sound/drawing event in collaboration with Foton sound artists. Data Ecologies, FoAM, Brussels
            


2009     Drawing Tide #06, Duration drawing installation.10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, Beijing, China
  
            Psychogeography,  On-site weather drawing photography. Periphery, Project Space, Melbourne
   
            Blue Print, Installation on expanded drawing practice. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 



2008     Drawing Field #02, In-situ site-specific installations. La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada
   
            Findings, Curated by Associate Professor Lesley Duxbury & PhD Candidate Lisa Byrne. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 
   
            Artesian, Site-specific multi-screen video project. 24 Hour Art, Darwin
   
            Funded by the Australian Film Commission. Instrumental Composer, Caerwen Martin, Electronic sounds by Foton, (Brussels)
   
            Line Drawing, Interdisciplinary installation. Curated by Dr Linda Marie Walker. SASA Gallery, Adelaide

 
            Drawingl River, Drawing and video installation. Curated by Ash Keating. 2020, Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne
   
            Tract, Multi-screened video installation. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne



2007     Drawing Field #01, Interdisciplinary expanded drawing installation Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane

           
90 Degrees Equatorial project, Interdisciplinary Land-Art Project. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
   
            Bridge Drawing Water, Site-specific Drawing event. DrawBridge, RowBoat, Aqua mics, radio, Lighthouse, Loudspeakers.
            Curated by Dr Linda Marie Walker. There Forever Ephemeral Public Art Project Commission
   
            Salt Drawing Lake, Ephemeral land-art video drawing project with aircraft. Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide
   
            Always Forever, 1-chanel video. Adelaide International Film Festival, Adelaide
   
            Good Evening Song #01 +#02, Interdisciplinary performance with Dr  Linda Marie Walker, Johannes Sistermanns (Cologne) 
            Delicatessen Gallery, Adelaide, Project Space Gallery, Melbourne
           


2006     B.O.P., Interdisciplinary installation. Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 
   
            Dutch Under, Interdisciplinary installation. Canvas International Art, Amsterdam.
   
            Tidemark #02, Site-specific drawing project. Amsterdam
   
            Drawing Gravity, 1-channel video installation. Public Commission. Project 3, Adelaide Festival of Arts
   
            Picnic, 3-channel video installation. Conical Gallery, Melbourne



2005     Limbo, 1-channel video installation. Federation Square, Melbourne Arts Festival, 2004 Luminosity Public Art Program, Adelaide
   
            Submerge, photography. Suburban Edge. 24 Hour Art, Darwin
   
            Microcosm, 1-channel video installation. Moving Image Festival, Adelaide
   
            White-Wash, 1-channel video. Sound by Angela Pye. Adelaide Film Festival, Art Gallery of South Australia



2004   
Tidemark, Interdisciplinary installation. Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
  
            Microcosm, 1-channel video installation, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

           
Blue velvet, Interdisciplinary installation. Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art Adelaide 
 
           
Submerge, photography. Suburban Edge. Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney

           
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
   
            Reception, Interdisciplinary installation. Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
   
            Span Gallery, Melbourne



2003     Shellfish/man, I-channel video. AIFF, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
   
            Residue Screening, ACMI program Brisbane, Melbourne, street video installation, SALA Festival, Adelaide
   
            Sink city, 1-channel video projection on architecture. SALA Festival, Adelaide
   
            Ulrick Schubert Photographic Art Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
   
            Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide

           
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
   
            Slipstream, Mass Gallery, Next Wave Festival Melbourne

           
Ark, Interdisciplinary installation. Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide
   
            Toying with Paradise, Experimenta, Nova Cinema, Melbourne Arts Festival



2001     Road Map,
Photography installation.Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, Adelaide
   
            Accord, 1-channel video projection with live performance by The State Orchestra of Victoria, Conductor Richard Divall.
            3MBS Radio Commission, Melbourne Concert Hall,  Melbourne

           
Toying with Paradise, Australian Center of Contemporary Art, Melbourne

Symposiums/Conferences:
2011    
Psychogeography, ACMI (Australian Center for the Moving Image) Melbourne
2011     Prufrok #4, Zeebelt, The Hague, Netherlands

2010     The Clearing, 3rd Annual This is Not a Gateway Festival, London
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
            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:
2011    Co-Curator Sattelietgroep, The Hague, Netherlands
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    Drawing Gravity, 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:
2010    Dr Julie Bacon, How life shows up as things disappear, Nadine, Brussels
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
2008    Nathalie Côté, Pour une poétique de l'eau (For a poetic of water) - La Presse Quebec
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
2007    Virginia Baxter, Here Today Gone Tomorrow, There Forever Public Art Project – RealTime Arts
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
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
2004    Samara Mitchell, Limbo, Luminosity Public Video - Filter ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology)
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