CONTACTING KARL    kjarts@optusnet.com.au

MYSPACE        http://www.myspace.com/kjarts 

Karl James is a multi award winning, self taught artist working from Whyalla in regional South Australia. His oeuvre is wide and ranges from high key expressionist still life and landscapes to mixed media collages often incorporating the written word, portraits, industrial oddities, brooding charcoal and pastel drawings and expressionist mono prints and linocuts 

 Karl’s passion for art making oozes from these works. They become outpourings of ideas, arteries, feeding his love of discovery and a new language for emotional and intellectual activity. Inherent in all the work is the search for a sense of the artists place and what creating art is all about. The making of art is mysterious and more often than not out of the hands of the artist. It seems to originate from somewhere else; the place of poetry and passion. Karl’s works are part of an ongoing cat and mouse, a chasing, stalking and pawing at the fabric of this mysterious place.

 For Karl art must have poetry and mystery. Let the viewer think what he will. Art is not absolute and it shouldn’t be. One should not try to destroy the mystery of life as science does but rejoice in it. This is the place of the artist.

 Karl’s work has been exhibited throughout regional and metropolitan South Australia and in the USA. His works are held in various private and corporate collections in Australia, Canada and USA.

artistic background

Karl James is a multi award winning artist working from Whyalla in regional South Australia. His work covers many media from heavy and brooding charcoal and pastel drawings to printmaking, mixed media collage and vibrant paintings in oil and acrylic. He has worked under internationally acclaimed artist and film maker George Gittoes and has been the recipient of a Foundation SA arts development scholarship, winner of the Whyalla art prize, Hummock hill art prize and One Steel industrial art award.  He has exhibited throughout South Australia and in Chicago USA.

solo exhibitions

 - Behind the painted face

 - Recent works

 - Angels – a South Australian touring exhibition

group exhibitions

-          Middleback theatre, Whyalla

-          Riddoch Gallery, Mt Gambier

-          Zone Gallery, Adelaide

-          Prospect Gallery, Adelaide

-          Newland Gallery, Adelaide

-          Artistic Lisence Gallery, Adelaide

-          SA Regional Touring Exhibitions Program

-          State Of The Art / Art Of The State

-          Port Pirie Regional Gallery

-          University of South Australia

-          DANK HAUS museum CHICAGO USA

-          Tin Cat Gallery, Adelaide

-          Chesser Gallery, Adelaide

publications

-          Australian Artist magazine

-          Mink magazine

 

awards

-          Foundation SA country arts development scholarship

-          Whyalla art prize

-          Hummock hill art prize

-          One Steel industrial art award

collections

-          Corporation of the city of Whyalla

-          SANTOS

-          SA Institute of Teachers

-          Various private collections in Australia, Canada, USA