EMMALINE JAMES
ARTIST BIO
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Upon finishing a Bachelor of (Visual) Arts at Edith Cowan University in 2016, Emmaline James began working as a professional Arts Worker in Geraldton, Western Australia. Emmaline has worked on a variety of creative projects and has served on the Geraldton Regional Art Gallery & Funtavia Fringe Festival Boards. She was the Administrator for ACDC Geraldton, established the Arts & Cultural Centre for the Shire of Yalgoo & Co-Founded Geraldton Open Studios & Surrounds.
Emmaline's company, Frida Grace, project manages GOSS, the company she also helped coordinate the Regional Arts WA Creative Ecology Summit with in February 2025. Her most recent role was as the RASI Project Officer with Regional Arts WA and she is developing a new digital platform Open Studios Australia which assists Artists with economic empowerment and promotion through creative tourism opportunities.
Emmaline's personal works have been showcased in group exhibitions and she was awarded the Western Australia Women’s Society of Fine Arts & Crafts Travel and Exhibition Scholarship travelling to Vancouver Canada during her undergraduate degree.
Emmaline leapt back into the Studio in 2021 and uses painting and sculpture to consider the connection between memory, relationship & the third space. Her recent encaustic works map lived experience through layered surfaces of wax and pigment, evoking both personal and collective ways of knowing. She invites the viewer to participate in her vision of cultural truths whilst encouraging them to construct their own.
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EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
2025 (upcoming) Mid West Art Prize finalist - Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
2024 Geraldton Regional Art Gallery - Mid West Arts Members Exhibition
2024 IOTA 2024 GRAG - Group exhibition Geraldton Pottery Club
2023 John Curtin Gallery, Open Borders Survey Exhibition
2022 Open Borders, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
2022 Flotsam & Jetsam, Latitude Jewellers, Geraldton
2021 Open Air Sculpture Gallery, Shire of Yalgoo
2018 City Greater Geraldton Christmas Sculpture Trail
2018 Five Elements, Geraldton Pottery Club
2017 Artitude Amplified by Gallery East, Crown Casino
2017 AllABoard, Arts & Cultural Development Council
2017 Clyde & Co Legal Community Art Award, Perth
2016 ArtsHum Graduate Exhibition, ECU
2016 What the materials murmured, Spectrum
2016 Spectrum Project Spaces, Perth
2016 Breathing Space, ECU Library, Perth
2016 Kwantlen University, Vancouver, Canada.
2015 ECU Collection Walking Tour
2015 Spectrum Project Spaces, Perth
2015 Unframed, Unlimited, Perth
2015 ECU Open Day, Mount Lawley, Perth
2015 4.151 Exhibition, Perth, Western Australia.
2015 Between the Sheets, Gallery East, Perth
2014 Flourish ArtsHum Grad Show, ECU
ARTS MANAGEMENT
2025 - current - Founder & Managing Director - Open Studios Australia
2024 - Frida Grace - Coordination Geraldton Open Studios & Surrounds &
Regional Arts WA Coordination Mid West Creative Ecology Summit
2024 - 2025 Regional Arts WA - RASI Arts Development Project Officer
2023 Co-Founder & Chair. Geraldton Open Studios & Surrounds
2019-20 Manager Community Wellbeing, Arts & Culture. Shire of Yalgoo
2018-20 Geraldton Regional Art Gallery Management Committee. City Greater Geraldton
2018-20 Funtavia Fringe Festival Board Member / Secretary. Geraldton WA
2018-19 Arts Centre Coordinator. Shire of Yalgoo, Mid West WA
2017-18 Geraldton Regional Art Gallery Public Arts Committee, City Greater Geraldton
2016-18 Administrator. Arts & Cultural Development Council. Geraldton WA
ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS
2016 Artitude Amplified for Telethon
2016 Clyde & Co Community Art Award
2015 WA Women's Society of Fine Arts and Crafts Travel & Exhibition Scholarship
EDUCATION
2022 Social Impact Strategy Tools • University of Pennsylvania
2016 Bachelor of Arts Visual Arts • Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA
2016 BA Study Abroad • Kwantlen University, Vancouver, Canada
1996 Certificate Secondary Education • Albany Senior High School