James Tylor

'Pardu is a daguerreotype photographic series of Kaurna animals. Most animals documented in the Kaurna language were recorded in the colonial period of the 1830s and 1840s by European colonists....

To understand the present, we must confront the past. Truth Tell delves into the learned narratives of early colonisation, and the deep impacts on Aboriginal people during this period. This...

James Tylor’s final photographic series, Tapa-arra Through the Landscap e, highlights the historical Indigenous roads, songlines, and trade routes across Australia, with a focus on the Kaurna people of South...

Borrowed Landscapes features the work of artists exploring and connecting with the Australian landscape and telling stories that have been previously overlooked. Featuring beautiful scenes from the Australian landscape, artists...

The Darkness of Enlightenment is a series of daguerreotype photographs that highlight Australia’s complex colonial history. Daguerreotypes were the first publicly available photographic technology and used widely in the 1840s...

An artist of diverse Nunga (Kaurna Miyurna), Māori (Te Arawa) and European heritage, Tylor utilises his practice to celebrate the rich culture and design of the Kaurna community in the...

James Tylor is included in 'Turbulent – video works from the Artbank Collection'.⁠ The exhibition responds to the Gertrude Steet Projection Festival 2023 theme [Confluence] 'an act of coming together,...

Photography was historically used to document First Nations Peoples and the European colonisation of Australia. Tylor uses the historical 19th-century photographic daguerreotype process with the aid of modern technology to...

James Tylor is a leading Australian artist whose practice examines histories of colonisation and their profound impact on Indigenous cultures and their relationship to place and spirituality. This approach to...

Turalayinthi Yarta is a Kaurna Miyurna phrase 'to see yourself in the landscape'. In a two-year period, James travelled over 300 km of the southern part of the Hans Heysen...

'Ceremony is testament that our culture has survived – not only over the many thousands of years but, particularly, the last couple of hundred years – because of its capacity...

Warpulyainthi is a site specific artwork that responds to the 2022 theme, Free/State. South Australia prides itself on being a ‘free state’ where no convicts were settled or used for...

In his artistic practice, James Tylor highlights under-told and often unseen histories of Aboriginal peoples. The landmass now known as Australia has been known by many names to many distinct...

Untouched Landscapes highlights the contemporary absence of Aboriginal cultures within the Australian landscape, and how this phenomenon is a direct result of the impact of European colonisation. The first European...

N.Smith Gallery is proud and super excited to introduce you to the work of the gallery's represented artists: Jordan Azcune, Tom Blake, Casey Chen, Neva Hosking, Kyra Mancktelow, Dylan Mooney,...

Nguya – The Australian Smallpox Pandemics explores the smallpox epidemics in Australia in the late 18th and the early 19th century. The series comprises landscape photographs from Warrang/Sydney, down the...

We Call This Place…Kaurna Yarta acknowledges the 42,000 - 65,000+ year Kaurna cultural history of Kaurna Yarta Adelaide region in South Australia. It highlights the impact the British colonisation had...

Drawn from his series From an Untouched Landscape, Tylor displays eighteen photographs captured on Kaurna land. Accompanying these are thirty Kaurna objects as made by Tylor according to historical records...

Through this series of domestic furniture and their accompanying photographs, we intertwine our contemporary family experience with Australia’s cultural and environmental history. Drawing on our family’s intercultural heritage, the work...

Karta Pintingga (The Island of the Dead) is a silent mono-chromatic film about Karta Pintingga Kangaroo Island in South Australia. This visually poetic silent film references the Island’s dark human...

Tylor’s recent photographic series Economics of Water highlights the environmental damage to the Murray Darling River system from poor water management, historically and ongoing. This series of photographs of a...

James created five recipes that are influenced by important foods from the armed conflicts that Australia has been involved in since 1788. The conflict included Australian Wars (1788-1930's), New Zealand...

The period, that to many, was the discovery of a ‘wondrous’ southern continent, was to others an invasion of homelands occupied for many millennia. This powerful exhibition reveals some of...

A $100,000 art prize supporting contemporary Australian artist under 40. Open to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium, the Ramsay Art Prize has redefined the way we think...

The first European colonists forced First Nations peoples off their traditional lands into small christian missions and government reserves across Australia. This allowed the new European arrivals free access to...

In 1802, Matthew Flinders circumnavigated the Australian continent to lay claim to the area as British territory and to stop the French from colonising Australia. During the expedition, Flinders mapped...

The photographic medium and method he chooses is pointed and integral to the reading of his works. For instance, he is well known for using early photographic techniques, such as...

James Tylor’s daguerreotype series Whalers, Sealers and Landstealers, re-presents the violent nineteenth-century conflict between Gunditjmara people and colonists in Western Victoria. This series explores the European colonisation of Victoria and...

It is a common misconception that Cook was the first to discover many of these places in the Moananui a Kiwa but, in fact, he never discovered any new islands....