James Voller

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James Voller is a New Zealand artist whose practice investigates aspects of place, photography and site specific installation.

Voller completed his undergraduate degree at the Ilam school of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand.  His final year's work was the successful photographic documentary book and series On my way Home which was shown in the United States and New Zealand. In 2008, Voller relocated to Wellington where he completed a Master of Fine Arts extramurally through The Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology.

His MFA explored site specific installation and reconsidered the role of the camera in his practice resulting in a body of work which questioned the role of photography in contemporary society. Displacement looked at shifts in physical sites around New Zealand and their relevant social histories. Through superimposing photographic imagery of domestic spaces in transitory urban spaces, Voller's interventions created the illusion of housing where none existed, and aimed to echo the changes which have occurred over the past few decades to New Zealanders' concept of “home” .

Since completing his MFA, James has exhibited successfully internationally, both with photographic and installation work. His practice is now a synthesis of his prior investigations, drawing on both installation and documentary photography in order to examine historical and social change.

He has been a finalist in several art awards and was awarded the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Research Art award and participated in the Artist in Residence programme in Krems, Austria from mid to late  2010.  After relocating to London in late 2010, James has been showing his work with a range of galleries and also with the Museum of London. James is currently creating work for galleries in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

 

 
© 2008 - 2012 James Voller