Biography
James Tapscott uses light-based materials, natural elements and phenomena to create works that are collaboration between the artist and the site, creating simple and elegant forms. Striving to enable the viewer to experience the work in a state of nameless non-objectification, if only for the briefest of moments.
This primal interaction empowers one to transcend language and embrace the potential to remove all boundaries between self and subject, matter and energy, light, time, information and hopefully to see a little more today than they did yesterday.
While being energy efficient and environmentally sensitive the works with their temporal, ephemeral nature strive to remind us of the same traits that our world subtly communicates to us, through the changing of the seasons and through shifts in climate and topography, that our world exists in time as well as space.
James Tapscott is the founder, curator and Director of Globelight, a bi-annual light art and design show with satelite locations.
Training + experience
BA (art) Curtin University (Western Australia) 1997-99
Cert IV, Small Business Management - Kangan Batman TAFE 2006
Selected exhibitions
2011 Photography, Bashimi Art House, Salzburg, Austria
2011 Synergy, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sydney
2012 Salon Launch, ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY
2012 10-12 Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sydney
2013 Artecycle, Incinerator Arts Complex, Melbourne
2013 Globelight, Melbourne various locations including ATG
2013 A Momentary Lapse of Darkness, ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY
2013 Biela Noc (White Night) Kosice, Slovakia
2014 Globelight, Melbourne various locations including ATG
2014 Without a Shadow of a Dao, ATG
2015 Season2, AT_SALON2, ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY
Publications + interviews
Illume – James Tapscott and Scott Baker
The Totem Project - James Tapscott and Scott Baker
Visual Artbeat issue #5 - feature article
Globelight '13 - James Tapscott
Globelight '14 - James Tapscott
Awards + grants
2011 Corrangamarah Art Prize (finalist)
2011 Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Travel Award
2012 Point B Artist Worklodge, Brooklyn, NY (residency)
2012 City of Devonport Art Award (finalist)
2013 City of Yarra Small Projects Grant (x2)
2013 Kasarne Kulturpark - Kosice, Slovakia (residency)
2014 City of Yarra Arts Development Grant (as Globelight)
Commissions
2013 White Night Kosice, Slovakia
2014 White Night Melbourne
2014 Vivid Sydney
2015 100 Hampton Rd, Fremantle, WA
Collections
Curtin Collection, ArtBank, and various private collections in Australia, UK, USA and Singapore
Price range
$900 - $5400
ATG Exhibitions