RECIPIENT OF THE 2016 GEORGES MORA FELLOWSHIP

James Geurts completed his Masters of Art at RMIT Melbourne in 2009 and has been producing large-scale, site and time-specific projects and gallery works in international contexts since 2002. Through critical investigation he draws out geographic and conceptual forms that are layered within sites of research. The artist examines how natural and cultural forces shape perception. Geurts works across the disciplines of sculpture, drawing, video, photography and Land Art.

Exhibitions include: National Gallery of Victoria; White Cube, London; Gemak, Den Haag Netherlands; Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Israel; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; La Chambre Blanche, Quebec; and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

2018 Projects include: Seismic Field, exhibition, 21 November – 21 December, GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide; Geophony, public sculpture CATO Square Prahran Melbourne; Refraction Principle, public sculpture in the Derwent River, GASP (Glenorchy Art & Sculpture Park) Tasmania; Drawing Origins, Synapse research residency with CSIRO and ANAT, November - January 2019; Floodplain, series of conceptually linked site works along the Birrarung (Yarra River) Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria- Ian Potter Centre Supported by the Georges Mora Fellowship, State library of Victoria, Melbourne Water, Australia Council for the Arts.

Geurts is represented by:

GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide & Berlin http://gagprojects.com

Contemporary Art Society, London http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/?s=james+geurts

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