About the Artist
James Ainslie
Ainslie was born in SA in 1950 and graduated in art from the South Australian School of Art. He has exhibited throughout Australia and overseas since 1975. Sand and water have always inspired his work, harking back to a childhood in South Australia spent playing around the Coorong and exploring the huge sand tracts around the Murray River. Now living in Noosa, he has turned his attention to the undulating dunes of Fraser Island and the many beaches along the Sunshine Coast shoreline. Ainslie’s annual visits to Broome also ensure that Kakadu and The Kimberley remain strong influences in his artwork.
Ainslie resided as a regular artist at Ayers Rock and was invited to represent South Australia in London with six other artists. He showed at the Museum of Fine Art in Pasadena, USA, with Ainslie Roberts and Garry Duncan. Ainslie won the prestigious Camberwell Flora & Fauna Prize in 1990 and was co-winner of the Barossa Valley Heritage Award.
His work is featured in many prestigious public and private collections worldwide, such as:
- Artbank
- BP Australia
- Reserve Bank of Australia
- Mobil Australia
- William Hancock collection
- San Francisco
- Banker’s Trust
- Diamond Merchants
- South Africa
