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.
