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
