James Voller MRSS

James Voller’s practice combines contemporary public art installation and photography. His sculptures are concerned with architecture, landscape and social histories. Since moving to Australia from New Zealand, James has worked on a range of large-scale permanent and temporary artworks in a range of settings both urban and regional, nationally and internationally. James’s installations are site-responsive and combine the latest architectural materials with public art concepts. 

His recent works generate illusions, linking history, architecture and social identity. James is particularly interested in how history, growth and architecture impact cities’ identities and the people who live in them. James is currently working across digital vinyl prints, Digiglass and projection technologies. 

James holds postgraduate degrees from RMIT and Monash Universities. In the past five years, he has undertaken over twenty major temporary and permanent public works across Australia. Other career highlights include Streets of Gold at the Museum of London in 2012, winning the People's Choice award for Moving House, Art Trams, as part of the Melbourne Festival in 2015. Also, the large-scale installation Fibro Dreams in Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2018, and being selected for SWELL and Sculpture by the Sea exhibitions in 2023.

James has partaken in multiple residences both internationally and throughout Australia, including the RMIT Krems residency in Austria, Kala Residency in Berkeley California funded by the Ian Potter Foundation, the Gippsland Creative Residency in 2018, and the Floating Land Artist Camp in Noosa 2024.

In 2019, Voller founded Collide Public Art Initiative, supporting and expanding artists into the Public Art realm.