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James Geurts

Australia

Geurts’ work engages landscapes and situations that are marked by distinctive weather and geographical conditions, and traces of human presence. These include tidal zones, faultlines, horizons, the equator and other conceptual lines.

The artist employs an ‘expanded drawing practice’ to investigate how these settings and landscapes reflect and stimulate subtle states of perception, drawing out relationships between phenomena that may appear disparate. Here, the emphasis in traditional drawing on the gestural, and resonance between thought and material, is located within a variety of processes and media. Moving outwards from the act of drawing on paper, these include: photography, video, Land Art, kinetic, light and sculptural installation. Drawing often involves modifying the function of technology for example, intervening in the circuitry of fluorescent tubes, digital video capture or photographic processes. Ultimately, these processes seek out elements of cyclical motion, flux and transformation, as revelatory of the expansive and intimate relationship between site and body.

Recent projects include: 2011 Drawing: Subterranean, GEMAK Holland; Drawing: Amplitude, DCR Holland ; Drawing: on Thresholds, CCA Israel; Vanishing Point: Drawing Appearance, Nadine, Brussels ; 2010 Drawing Horizon, Satellietgroep, Holland ; Drawing Field Transmissions, Drawing Out, Federation Square, RMIT University, University of the Arts London 2010; Drawing Tectonic, Italy 2010; Data Ecologies, Foton collaboration, FoAM, Brussels 2009; Drawing Tide #06, Open Art International Art Festival, Beijing, China 2009; Drawing Field #02, La Chambre Blanche In-situ Artist residency 2009, Quebec; 90 Degrees Equatorial Project, four points, equally spaced 90 degrees apart on the equator, six hours apart, Sumatra, Gabon, Ecuador, Kirribatti (Pacific), The Alternative Space and Beyond, ARTspace, New Media, CAA Los Angeles 2009; Art and Cartography International Symposium, Vienna 2008, Experimental Art Foundation 2007.

Birth place
Australia
Adelaide
South Australia