ABOUT INDIANA JAMES

Born in Indiana & educated in Geological Engineering, James was an oil explorationist who migrated to Australia in 1986 to find a major oil field for Santos Ltd in Adelaide. (Which he failed to do.) In 1992, bored with oil finding, he moved into an old British Landrover to work as a travelling carpenter only to end up making sculpture, marrying textile artist Linda Jenkins & moving to her birthplace of Kangaroo Island. Since then he has exhibited extensively in Adelaide & Sydney, won public commissions & major arts awards & built over 1600 sculptures of Australian wildlife. Now located in the "Boomerbank" barn at Pelican Lagoon that he & Linda have built, James continues to find meaning in the wreckages of human endeavour, creating critters from driftwood & discarded farm machinery.