Dr. James Carey is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Interior Design, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University. James is Final Year Coordinator, Bachelor of Interior Design (Hons). James was an Artistic Director at BLINDSIDE Gallery 2018 - 2022.
James' creative practice research is concerned with notions of duration, labour, maintenance, and value. Through this, works made respond to environmental, cultural, reconciliation, 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, James Carey with Taylor Knights, pond[er], NGV Architecture Commission 2021, AIA Victorian Architecture Awards - Award for Small Project Architecture 2022, and last night i dreamt of fountains as part of 'Fountains, Failures, Futures: the afterlives of public art" presented by Skissernas Museum - Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Lund University, Sweden 2023.
Industry experience:
-Australia Arts Council grant, Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups 2019
-Popps Packing Artist Residency, Hamtramck, USA 2017
-Australia Arts Council grant, New Work, July 2010
-Honourable Mention, student exhibition for Blundell House, Shanghai Biennale 2007
Awards:
AIA Victorian Architecture Awards - Award for Small Project Architecture for pond[er] in collaboration with Taylor Knights
Award date: 2022
Recipients: James Carey
pond[er] in collaboration with Taylor Knights, NGV Architecture Commission
Award date: 2021
Recipients: James Carey
Honourable Mention - student exhibition for Blundell House, Shanghai Biennale
Award date: 2007
Recipients: James Carey
James' creative practice research is concerned with notions of duration, labour, maintenance, and value. Through this, works made respond to environmental, cultural, reconciliation, and political systems within the built environment.
Research keywords:
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.
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.