James Powditch Australia, b. 1966
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Powditch's practice—assemblage based, monumental and beautiful—is created with an alchemist’s hand. The artist weaves the detritus of our existence into something that has a direct connection to our collective psyche.
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Biography
Lives and works in SYDNEY, Australia
James Powditch is an acclaimed mix media artist who adapts the associated memory or essence of his found objects and frankensteins them with his own to fabricate hybrid actively ‘functioning’ art forms, which in their essence objectify communication.
Akin to a scavenging Bower bird, Powditch picks out the gems and detritus of our modern world- it’s byproducts of film, text, cartography, architecture are often influences, if not physically present in his assemblages, continuing to feed Powditch’s narrative of mindfulness and self awareness. Aligning an artist’s quintessential need to make with the universal impulse to imbibe photos and objects with memories as markers of existence.
Powditch’s wistfully beautiful artworks are the result of a steady and successful exhibiting career which has seen him as a multi finalist in the Moran, Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize and winner of the Blake and Mosman Art Prize.
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Works
James Powditch Australia, b. 1966
Citizen Kane, 2022Mixed media80 x 120cmSoldExhibitions
Medium Cool - Journalism in FilmExhibitions-
Panel
Group Exhibition January 15 - 31, 2026 GALLERY TWORead more -
Major \ Minor
Group Exhibition November 6 - 22, 2025 GALLERY ONE, LEVEL ONERead more -
Empire Fall
James Powditch July 22 - August 9, 2025 GALLERY ONERead more -
Other Worlds
Group Exhibition September 3 - 21, 2024 GALLERY ONE, GALLERY TWO, LEVEL ONERead more
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Coming Home
Group Exhibition July 17 - 27, 2024Read more -
Beautiful Things
Group Exhibition January 18 - February 3, 2024 GALLERY ONE, GALLERY TWORead more -
Landscape And Memory
Group Exhibition September 2, 2023 - September 23, 2025 GALLERY ONE, GALLERY TWORead more -
Medium Cool: Journalism in Film
James Powditch June 12 - July 1, 2023 GALLERY ONERead more
News-
The Rise and Ruin of Power: James Powditch’s Empire Fall
July 23, 2025Vault Magazine's Jaime Blakeney interviewed James Powditch about his current exhibition EMPIRE FALL on show at Nanda\Hobbs until 9 August. In the comprehensive article she...Read more -
N\H Finalists — 2025 Archibald and Wynne Prizes
May 2, 2025We’re beyond proud to announce that four of our represented artists have been named finalists in the 2025 Archibald and Wynne Prizes—a massive achievement for...Read more -
2023 Archibald, Wynne + Sulman finalists announced
April 27, 2023The judges of Australia's most anticipated art award have made their selection with 2023 finalists just annouced. Congratulations to Nanda\Hobbs artists—James Powditch, Marie Mansfield and...Read more
