Biography:
Based in Melbourne and London, James' conceptually driven practice focuses on the way that cultural and natural forces intersect to shape both landscape and perception. Through abstraction, fieldwork, site-actions and studio research, his recent projects explore paradigms of measurement, commodification of water bodies, and investigates concepts of time by merging the primordial, geological and the technological. His site-actions often include modifying analogue and digital methods to emulate conditions of the site.
Instagram: @james.geurts
Represented by: GAGPROJECTS (Greenaway Art Gallery) Adelaide & Berlin
Recent News:
ISSUE 13: Arts Journal, Peter Hill, James Geurts—Weatherman 2024
Prometheus: Eternal Flame, public sculpture commission, MIRVAC, ADA Consulting 380 St Kilda Road Melbourne 2024
Art Collector, Nina Miall, Curators Radar - James Geurts 2023
Floodline, Stamford Park public art commission Knox City Council 2023
Latent Channel, Australia Council for the Arts ACME London Studio residency, April - Oct 2022
Time Zero: International Date Line, selected for The Sovereign Asian Art Prize Hong Kong 2022
Trajectories: Orbiting Bodies Meet, sculpture commission, Shepparton Art Museum 2021 - 2023
Aperture f/1.2 Shallow Inlet, conceptual land art, HERO Public art commission Melbourne City Council 2022
TarraWarra Biennial 2021, curated by Nina Miall, 27 March - 11 July 2021
The Habitat of Time, Arts Catalyst, London, curated by Julie Louise Bacon, 20 Feb - 14 March 2020
Recent reviews/Publications:
Landscape Australia - Review by Tim Edensor
Fluid Geography, The Adelaide Review
Seismic Field review - Art Guide Review by Tiarney Miekus 2018
Seismic Field review - The Adelaide Review by Jane Llewellyn 2018
Seismic Field review - Art & Australia by Tamara Marwood 2018
Floodplain review - Un Projects by Sophie O'Brien 2018
Floodplain Publication - Perimeter Books
Floodplain exhibition - National Gallery of Victoria