James Dodd Australia
James Dodd exhibits regularly across Australia in publicly funded institutions, commercial galleries and artist-run spaces. He works with a range of approaches including particular interests in painting, machines as art, graffiti, adventure and public space. He maintains a curiosity in sheds, backyards suburbia and the creative activities and transgressions that occur in these spaces.
A recent significant and ongoing project is The Painting Mill; a contraption that is cobbled together from various household, shed-found and DIY parts such as cordless drills, rollerblades and bicycles, which are operated via remote control. The Painting Mill becomes somewhat performative in its presentation whilst also pursuing painted outcomes that can be engaging in their own right.
Dodd is active as an educator at Adelaide Central School of Art and regularly delivers youth and community based arts programs across a range of outcomes. He is often finding ways to tap into his kinetic art interests to develop educational projects that lean into both visual art and STEM streams.
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Southbound
Curated by Dave Court 17 - 19 Mar 2023The Bait Fridge, Sarah Boese, Kurt Bosecke, Michael Carney, Gabriel Cole, Shane Mankitya Cook, Dave Court, Jasmine Crisp, Lucas Croall, James Dodd, Matthew Fortrose, Pia Gynell-Jorgensen, Benen Hamon, Seb Humphreys, Tristan Kerr, Hari Koutlakis, Vans the Omega, Loren Orsillo, Rosina Possingham, Henry Jock Walker & Emmaline Zanelli.Read more -
Street Sketches
James Dodd 5 - 21 Nov 2021I grew up always having to make-do with whatever was at hand and this sense of adaptation and DIY has carried through into my practice. I am also inherently an outdoors person and look for ways to make things outside, have adventures and add to an ongoing sense of 'plein...Read more
