Dr James Carey
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Dr. James Carey is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Interior Design, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University. James' creative practice research is concerned with notions of duration, labour, maintenance, and value. Through this, works made respond to environmental, cultural, and political systems within the built environment. These works result in numerous outcomes that include, public art, installation, sculpture, and publications.
Recent projects include ¡ MAINTENANCE ! [a proposition for future architectures], Oslo Architecture Triennale, Norway 2019, ! 金 !, curated by Dr Kent Wilson and La Trobe Art Institute, as part of the Castlemaine State Festival, Australia 2019, some alchemies [heavy breathing] with Bridie Lunney, RMIT Project Space / Spare Room 2022, transformations [something poetic] with Bridie Lunney, Lilac City 2022, and in collaboration with Taylor Knights architects, their project pond[er] was awarded the NGV Architecture Commission in 2021, and won the AIA Victorian Architecture Awards - Award for Small Project Architecture 2022.
James’ creative practice research has inherent curiosities to notions of duration, labour, maintenance, and value in contemporary societies. Through this, works made respond to cultural and political systems within the built environment.
Durational and Time-based Practices, Expanded Notions of Drawing, Temporal, [im]material and Spatial Relations, Contemporary Art and Design, Interior and Spatial Practice, Trans-disciplinary Art and Design Practices.
Publications
Projects
Awards
Interiority, 1, 185 - 202
Carey, J. (2018).
International journal of interior architecture and spatial design, 100 - 106
Carey, J. (2018).
Terra Firma London, UK
Carey, J., Drake, C. (2017).
NGV Architecture Commission
2021
Oslo Architecture Triennale, Norway
2019
Castlemaine State Festival, Australia
Curated by Dr Kent Wilson and La Trobe Art Institute
2019
Award date: 2022
Recipients: James Carey
Award date: 2021
Recipients: James Carey
Award date: 2007
Recipients: James Carey
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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