James Voller
CV & Bio

Bio
Voller’s practice combines contemporary public art installation and photography. His sculptures are concerned with architecture, landscape and social histories. Since moving to Australia from New Zealand, James has worked on a range of large-scale permanent and temporary artworks in a range of settings both urban and regional, nationally and internationally. James’s installations are site-responsive and combine the latest architectural materials with public art concepts.

Voller holds postgraduate degrees from RMIT and Monash Universities. His recent works generate illusions, linking history, architecture and social identity. James is particularly interested in how history, growth and architecture impact cities’ identities and the people who live in them. James is currently working across digital vinyl prints, Digiglass, Pic Perf and projection technologies. James has extensive experience working within rural communities and creating large-scale public artworks that embed local and iconic imagery into robust and long-lasting public art materials.

Selected Exhibitions 

  • 2024 Amidst the Drift, Berninneit Gallery Cowes, Victoria, Australia

  • 2023 Housing Crash, Sculpture by the Sea, NSW, Australia

  • 2023 Continental Drift, Light Up NZ, New Zealand

  • 2023 Housing Inflation, SWELL Festival, QLD, Australia

  • 2023 Layered Perspectives, Montsalvat, Victoria, Australia

  • 2021 Waterline, Montsalvat, Victoria, Australia

  • 2018 Breeze Blocks, Brisbane Open House, Brisbane, Australia

  • 2016 C3 Gallery, Abbotsford Convent, Victoria, Australia

  • 2015 F5: Footscray in Transition, Metro West Gallery, Victoria, Australia

  • 2012 Streets of Gold, London Museum, London, UK

  • 2011 Out of Office, SPECS Gallery, London, UK

  • 2010 Moving Place, Christchurch Centre for Contemporary Art, NZ. 

  • 2010 Homely-Unheimlich, Kunst Verein Baden, Baden, Austria

Selected Commissions 

  • 2024 In Line, Fairpark Reserve, Victoria, Australia

  • 2023 Pipe Down, Billbergia, NSW, Australia

  • 2022 Weatherboard Patterns, Inkerman & Nelson, Victoria, Australia

  • 2022 Yardwork, T Projects, Victoria, Australia

  • 2020 Piping Hot, City of Stonnington, Victoria, Australia

  • 2018 Fibro Dreams, Sculpture by the Sea, NSW, Australia

  • 2018 Little Boxes, Bayside City Council, Victoria, Australia

  • 2018 At Home on the edge, Livingstone Community Centre, Victoria, Australia

  • 2017 Changing Places, City of Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia

  • 2017 Enchanted, Glow Winter Arts Festival, Victoria, Australia

  • 2017 Looking through Houses, Adelaide City Council, South Australia, Australia

  • 2015 Home away from Home, Cairns Regional Council, Queensland, Australia

  • 2010 Collide, Bass Coast Shire Council, Victoria, Australia

  • 2009 Raycroft Intervention, High Street Project, Christchurch, NZ

Residency/Awards 

  • 2024 Floating Land Artist Camp, Noosa

  • 2023 SWELL Sculpture Awards QLD, Australia - Highly Commended Housing Inflation

  • 2022 New South Wales Train Museum Artist Residency 

  • 2018 Gippsland Creative Residency 

  • 2015 Peoples’ Choice award, Melbourne Art Trams 

  • 2015 Kala Art Institute Arts Residency, Berkeley California

  • 2010 Ethel Susan Jones Travelling Scholarship, University of Canterbury, Berlin, Germany

  • 2010 Artist in Residence, Krems, Austria

  • 2009 Finalist- Siemens Art Awards, Melbourne, Australia

  • 2009 RMIT Master of Fine Arts Scholarship

  • 2009 Finalist- Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand

Selected Collaborations 

  • 2024 Migrating Light, Vivid Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Collaborating Artist: Joel Zika 

  • 2023 Ostensorium, DRIFT Festival, Victoria, Australia

  • Collaborating Artist: Joel Zika 

  • 2022 From here we grow, Sydney Sports Stadium, NSW, Australia 

  • Collaborating Artist: Dennis Golding 

  • 2022 Musa, Botanica, Brisbane, Australia 

  • Collaborating Artist: Joel Zika 

  • 2022 Through the wind and water, Northern Beaches Council, NSW, Australia

  • Collaborating Artist: Dennis Golding 

  • 2022 Blue Echo, Hickory, Victoria, Australia

  • Collaborating Artist: Jody Haines 

  • 2022 Saturation, South Side Festival, Victoria, Australia

  • Collaborating Artist: Joel Zika 

  • 2022 Tracing Place, Geelong Design Week, Victoria, Australia

  • Collaborating Artists: Joel Zika, Michaela McHugh, Lucy Allinson

Bibliography 

  • 2014 Melbourne Art Critic. Australia

  • 2012 Cassone. UK

  • 2012 NZ News UK

  • 2011 Webb, Penny, Constructing Site: James Voller, The Melbourne Magazine, 25 Feb

Education/Artist Training 

  • Member of Royal Society Sculptors 

  • Master of Fine Art, RMIT 

  • Master (Honours) of Fine Art by Research, Monash University 

  • Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Canterbury