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Home > Art > Curriculum Vitae: James Darling

Curriculum Vitae: James Darling

Biography

• 1946 - Born, Melbourne, Victoria
• 1965 - 1967 - University of Melbourne and Australian National University, Canberra;
  BA Majoring in English and Philosophy
• 1968 - 1976 - Lived and worked in Europe
• 1976 - Returned to Australia
  Moved to Duck Island, Keith, SA

Solo Exhibitions since 1990  

• 2006 - Coalesence, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia. 
• 2006 - Circle 1 - Roots across the World, La Defense, Paris, France 
• 2005 - Triangle 2, The Esplanade, Singapore
• 2004 - Everyone Lives Downstream, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
• 2004 - Beyond the Square, Wilderness School, Adelaide, South Australia, including Cube and Beyond
• 2004 - James Darling, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW, including Wall Work 4
• 2003/04 - Wall Work 3, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Gymea, New South Wales
  Custody & Consequence - Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia, including Wave Wall 2
• 2002/03 - Planting Roots in Paris, Australian Embassy Gallery, Paris, France,including Wave Wall 1 and Malleefowl nest 11: Spring
• 2002 - Triangle 1 - Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
• 2001 - Fire and Roots, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, including Fire and Roots 2 and Malleefowl nest 7: Summer
• 1996 - Malleefowl nest 3: Winter, Penola Arts Festival, Penola, South Australia
• 1995 - Duck Island, Sixth Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music, ABC, Ultimo Centre, Sydney - including Malleefowl nest 2: Spring
• 1994 - Define the Country, Riddoch Art Gallery, Mount Gambier, South Australia including Malleefowl nest 1: Autumn
• 1992 - Works on Paper, S.A. Arts Council, Adelaide
• 1990 - Instinct, Imagination and Physical Work, Naracoorte Art Gallery, Naracoorte, South Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions since 1991

• 2003 - Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, New South Wales including
  Malleefowl nest 12: Spring, September 2003
• 2002 - Wild Nature, Jamfactory Galleries, Adelaide, South Australia, including Malleefowl nest 10:  Spring, September - November 2002.  Touring exhibition to 10 regional galleries
  Artists of Coonawarra and Surrounding Regions, National Wine Centre of Australian Art Space, Adelaide, South Australia, August 2002
  Public Art/Open Spaces, ARCO, Madrid, including Malleefowl nest 9:  Summer.   February 2002
• 2001 - Empathy: Beyond the Horizon, Pori Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland including Malleefowl nest 8:  Autumn.
  Limestone Coast:  Layers of the Land, Newland Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia including Photographs
  Duck Island Red Gums 1, 2, 3
• 2000 - Chemistry: South Australian Art 1990-2000, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide including
  Malleefowl nest 6:  Spring
• 1998 - Men Only Keith Institute, Keith, South Australia including Malleefowl nest 5:  Summer
• 1997 - The Object in an Altered Landscape: James Darling, Christopher Langton, Louise Paramor, Mildura Arts Festival, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria including Malleefowl nest 4: Autumn
  South East Diversity, Lombard Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia
• 1994 - Images of the South East, (South Australia) photographic traveling exhibition, commencing Naracoorte Art Gallery, Naracoorte, South Australia
• 1993 - Dinner with Paul Davies, Keith Institute, Keith, South Australia
• 1991 - Keith Earth Six, Keith Institute, Keith, South Australia

Public Art

• 2004 - Taunta Hut Marker, Salt Creek, South Australia
• 2003/04 - Fast Food, limestone sculpture on steel fork, National Limestone Sculpture Symposium, Old Gaol, Mt. Gambier, South Australia
• Port Pirie Entrance Project: George’s Corner to Boundary Road, Environmental Art Project in which trees (melaleuka halmaturorum) and salt tolerant grass (puccinellia cilliata) have been planted to landscape 3.5km of the approach to Port Pirie, South Australia, through a samphire tidal salt swamp
• 1999 - Circlework, water sculpture/fountain, Soldiers’ Memorial Park, Keith, South Australia.  Public sculpture commissioned for the South Australian Country Arts Trust Waterworks Project
• 1993 - The Sheep’s Back Museum Public Art Project:  Naracoorte National Trust Fence Sculpture, Naracoorte, South Australia, March, including contribution Root Kebab

Publications

James Darling:  Instinct, Imagination Physical Work by Daniel Thomas, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, South Australia, December 2001
"Waterworks" by Catherine Murphy, Chapter 2, Keith: Salt of the Earth, Country Arts SA, 1999

Selected Articles and Publications since 1994

• "Evolution of saltland management in the farm system." Salt Magazine, Issue 12, 2005
• "Everyone Lives Downstream, James Darling and Lesley Forwood", Paul Dounton, Artlink, Volume 25, No.1, March 2005
• "Symbols of Surface Tension", Stephanie Radok, Adelaide Review, December 2004
• "Fire and Roots 2", Insight, Westpac Private Bank, Issue 3, 2004
• "Confronted with memories of six", Anne Loxley, Sydney Morning Herald, April 2004
• "The better angles of our nature", Patricia Anderson, The Australian, April 2004
• "Berkowitz and Darling: A Harvest of Art", Laura Murray-Cree, Australian Art Review, April 2004
• "Mallee Boy.  Custody and Consequences, James Darling", John Neylon, Adelaide Review, May 2003
• "Four Books", Artlink, Volume 22 No. 4, Ian Hamilton, January 2003
• "Artistic Roots", Look, Art Gallery Society of NSW, July 2002
• "Gallery", Art and Australia, Volume 39, No. 4, June 2002
• "Australia at ARCO", Object, Issue 39, May 2002
• "On the road to Madrid" - "The reign in Spain", Benjamin Genocchio, The Australian Weekend Review, February 2002
• "Making our mark in Madrid", Susan Archdall, The Advertiser, January 2002
• "Farming as art", Border Chronicle, January 2002
• "Entrances to come alive", Ellei Bone, The Recorder, Port Pirie, July 2001
• "Putting down roots", Tim Lloyd, The Advertiser, June 2001
• "12 tonnes of mallee roots to Finland so James can build his malleefowl nest", Everard Himmelreich, Naracoorte Herald, June 2001
• "Symbolic elements in arts equation", Wendy Walker, The Advertiser, October 2000
• "Creativity keeps a chemical balance", Peter Ward, The Australian, Sydney, October 2000
• "Grappling with such poetics/jostling…", Stephanie Radok, Adelaide Review, Adelaide, South Australia, October 2000
• "Isolated miracles", Periphery, Issue No. 40-41, Spring 1999 - Summer 2000
• "Acqua Vitae", Border Chronicle, June 1999
• "Water Celebration," Stock Journal, June 1999
• "Balancing Art, Agriculture & the Environment", Border Chronicle, June 1999
• "Focus on Malleefowl", Border Chronicle, May 1999
• "WATER works for ART", Advertiser, December 1998
• "Take 4.5 Tonnes of Mallee Roots" Naracoorte Herald, Penola Festival Review, June 1996
• "Bird’s nest a product of a unique talent", Naracoorte Herald, Penola Festival Review, June 1996
• "James Darling", New Observations, Solar Art (New York), Issue 111, June 1996
• "Art about Farming", Artlink, Culture & Agriculture, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1995
• "Keith: the Raw Materials, the Ingredients", Community Arts National Vol. 5, 1995
• "James approaches art with a farmer attitude", Stock Journal, June 1994
• "The world is wide - James Darling", SE Farming News, May 1994
• "From the Ground Up: The Art of James Darling", John Wolseley, Define the Country Catalogue, April 1994

Involvement in Theatre Works 1980 - 1992

Literary Publications

• "Vintage 02", Stories, poetry, prose from Penola Festival, 2002
• "Vintage 00", Stories, poetry, prose from Penola Festival, 2000
• "Vintage 98", Stories, poetry, prose from Penola Festival, 1998
• "Vintage 97", Stories, poetry, prose from Penola Festival, 1997
• "Vintage 96", Stories, poetry, prose from Penola Festival, 1996
• "A Bumper Crop", edited Michael Page, stories from the South East Writers Group, 1986
• "A Few to Start With", short stories by James Darling, 1985
• "Something from the Late Sixties", Adelaide Review, September 1984
• "First Voice", Stories from South East Writers Group, 1982
• "Duck Island Days", Overland, Vol. 78, December 1979

Literary prize

• "Day of the Dust", Winner South East Max Harris Short Story Award, June 2000

Arts Administration 1980 - 1992

• Member of the Keith Theatre Group (KTG) 1978-1992
• Chairperson, Promoters of Entertainment and Arts in Keith (PEAK) 1988-1990
• Trustee, South East Cultural Trust (SECT) 1982 - 1988
• Chairman, Finance (SECT) 1984 - 1987
• Chairman, Riddoch Art Gallery Management Committee, 1987 - 1988
• Member, Keith Institute Committee (KIC) 1979 - 1990
• President, KIC 1982 - 1990
• Project Manager, KI Development Committee, responsible for $400,000 Redevelopment of the Keith Institute, opened 5th May 1989
• Founding Chairman, Keith Arts Council (K.A.C.) 1978 - 1987

Agriculture and the Environment

• Member, SA State Dryland Salinity Committee, 2001 -
• Member, Integrated Catchment Management Team, Primary Industry and Resources SA, Keith, SA, 1998 -
• Founding Chairman, Saltland Solutions Inc., 1996 -
• Member, SA Reserve Planning and Management Advisory Committee to the South Australian National Parks and Wildlife Council, Department for Environment and Heritage, 1997 - 2003
• Member, Productive Use & Rehabilitation of Saline Land (PURSL) National Committee, 1998 - 2001
• Tatiara District Council Representative on the Upper South East Advisory Committee to the South East Water Conservation and Drainage Board, 1995 - 2000
• Member, Duck Island Watercourse Conservation Committee, 1983 - 1988

Articles and Publications since 1995

• Insights: Case studies on how farmers are successfully managing saltland for profit and sustainability, Land and Water Australia, March 2004
• "Nature is not a background", Mark Muller, Outback Magazine, Issue 31,Oct/Nov 2003
• "Artist takes malleefowl to the world", Malleefowl Matter, Western Australia, Edition 28, July 2002
• "Saltland as a profitable resource", Case Studies - Sustainable Grazing for Saline Land, John Powell, CSIRO, May 2002
• "Owners and custodians of our land", Editorial, The Advertiser, January 2002
• "Fences fall as farm and park frontiers merge", Catherine Hockley, The Advertiser, January 2002
• "Darling of Duck Island", Australian Beef Improvement News, Melbourne, September/October 2001
• "Gum Lagoon Conservation Park and Duck Island Management Plan", Border Chronicle, August 2001
• "Putting down roots", Tim Lloyd, The Advertiser, June 2001
• "Salt management revamps ‘swamp’", Stock Journal, October 2000
• "A Philosophy for Salt" Natural Resource Management (Special Edition), June 2000
• "Duck Island happy with EU premium", Stock Journal, May 2000
• "Magnificent beef produced from former South East wasteland", Stock Journal, January 2000
• "Life with a grain of salt", SA Showcase, Stock Journal, Adelaide Show, September 1999
• "Puccinellia Perennial Sweet Grass", Duck Island Case Study, PIRSA, October 1997
• "Duck Island", Salt Sand Success, Primary Industry SA/Landcare Australia, October 1996
• "SE on brink of saltland seed boom", Stock Journal, July 1996
• "Puccinellia to the Rescue", Acres Australia, Vol. 4 No. 3, 1996
• "Just a Gentle Nudge for Nature" Acres Australia, Vol. 4 No. 3, 1996
• "Flood country graziers are the salt of the earth", Stock Journal, December 1995

Conference Papers

• "Sight beyond Boundaries", conVerge Symposium, 2002 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide, SA, March 2002. viz www.adelaidebiennial.com
• "From Consultation to Implementation: a landowner view of the Upper South East Dryland Salinity and Flood Management Plan", PURSL National Conference, Launceston, Tasmania, March 2001
• "Challenging Our Practices", Heritage and Biodiversity Conference, Department for Environment and Heritage, Adelaide, SA, July 2000
• Salt Management in Action, "A Philosophy for Salt" and "Plants in Saline Environments: Restora Sweet Grass (RSG) - Puccinellia Ciliata", PURSL National Conference, Naracoorte, South Australia, November 1999
• "Art, Agriculture, Environment: the Dynamic Balance", Visions of Future Landscapes: Fenner Conference on the Environment, Bureau of Rural Science & Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, May 1999
• "USE Focus Catchment Report", NDSP - Stakeholder Workshop, Balfes Creek, Queensland, August 1998
• "Use or Rehabilitation of Salinized Land", NDSP Phase II Design Workshop, Adelaide, SA, 6-7th April 1998
• "USE Focus Catchment Report", National Dryland Salinity Program (NDSP) - Stakeholder Workshop, Mt. Barker, Western Australia, 13-15th October 1997

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