James Barth
The Clumped Spirit
12 October–22 December 202412 Oct–22 Dec 2024
#TheClumpedSpirit
James Barth’s practice explores the themes of trans self-representation and embodiment. Trained as an oil painter, her work extends beyond the traditional through a layered creative process.
Using 3D modelling software, Barth first creates stages, props, and avatars rendered in her likeness, and assembles them into detailed digital tableaux. The compositions are then animated into video works and transmuted into oil paintings.
The Clumped Spirit marks Barth’s conceptual departure from self portraiture. Drawing on the material characteristics of modernist architecture, cinematic languages of the 1960s and 1970s, and dance, Barth will dismantle her avatar across digital and physical worlds.
The Clumped Spirit is presented as part of Copyright Agency Partnerships, an annual commissioning series supporting mid-career and established visual artists to develop and present a major new body of work. It is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and the IMA Commissioners Circle.
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Artist Bio
James Barth is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based artist whose work explores trans self-representation and embodiment. Barth will exhibit in the upcoming Adelaide Biennale and her group exhibitions include Embodied Knowledge: Contemporary Queensland Art (Queensland Art Gallery, 2021), New Woman (Museum of Brisbane, 2019), and Assuming Surface (Outer Space, Brisbane, 2018). Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane; and V&A, London. Barth is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
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