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James Tapscott

Kallista, Victoria, Australia

Australian land and light artist whose documented installations combine landscape settings, reflective materials, water mist and illumination. Works include Diaphanous Bloom and several separately named Arc installations.

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Practice
land art, light installation, sculpture
Based in
Kallista, Victoria, Australia
Profile
individual
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Mixed-use development · Shenzhen, China

Diaphanous Bloom: mist and light at a pedestrian intersection

Project partner UAP describes Diaphanous Bloom at Shenzhen’s MixC World as an 8.5-metre permanent sculpture commissioned through Art Front Gallery. Its polished stainless-steel tree form releases mist into the air, while programmed light changes the canopy’s appearance. UAP records its role in overseeing installation at a key pedestrian junction. The account makes the relationship among sculpture, environmental effects and circulation concrete, without providing water demand, equipment access or a maintenance specification.

UAP — Diaphanous Bloom project case study ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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How will water supply, mist equipment, maintenance access and pedestrian movement be coordinated with the sculpture?

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Festival and landscape installations · China and Australia

Arc ZERO: Eclipse: dimensions belong to a particular presentation

Tapscott’s project page groups several Arc ZERO: Eclipse presentations: Shenzhen in 2018, Melbourne’s RISING festival in 2021, and a temporary remote installation at Lake Tyrell in 2025. It lists steel, mist and light and gives a 5.4-metre diameter specifically for the RISING version. A curator should retain these separate contexts when using the project as a reference; a shared title does not establish the same size, hardware or installation conditions at every site.

James Tapscott — Arc ZERO: Eclipse project record ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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Which iteration best matches the site, and what changes would the artist require for its water, weather and viewing conditions?

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Canal Convergence · Scottsdale, Arizona, 2021

Arc ZERO: Oculus: framing an existing piece of infrastructure

Tapscott records a 7.5-metre Arc ZERO: Oculus installation for Canal Convergence in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 2021, positioned around a bridge designed by Paolo Soleri. The same page records a separate 2020 presentation in Odense, Denmark. The Scottsdale reference is particularly useful for researching a commission whose composition depends on an existing structure: the artwork’s relationship to the bridge is part of the documented design, beyond the ring itself.

James Tapscott — Arc ZERO: Oculus ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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What existing bridge, path or landscape feature should the work frame, and what site permissions and attachment constraints apply?

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Image from the project source for Arc ZERO: Eclipse — RISING
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Arc ZERO: Eclipse — RISING ↗

James Tapscott

mist and light installation

Project details & references
Materials
mist, light, steel
Year / version
2021 RISING version
Documented at
RISING festival, Melbourne, Australia
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Diaphanous Bloom ↗

James Tapscott

mist and light installation

Project details & references
Materials
polished stainless steel, mist, light
Year / version
2018
Documented at
MixC World, Shenzhen, China
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James Tapscott is based in Kallista, Victoria, Australia. Documented disciplines include land art, light installation, sculpture.

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