The spherical composition, reminiscent of 16th-century globes, encapsulates a vibrant array of Australian flora, exploring the tension between Western artistic heritage and the unique beauty of the Australian landscape.

Large oil paintings. The work is based on the frescoes of the great Jesuit Perspectivalist of the Baroque era, Andrea Pozzo and his ceiling cycle Saint Ignatius

This exhibition is based on McGrath’s travels around Italy Using a special infrared video camera to create new paintings.

This exhibition merges Baroque fabric and Dutch still-life idioms, exploring their contrasts and the tension in their union. Themes include surface and form, the eroticism of folds, flicker, blur, and viewer embodiment. Created using a 3D digital Baroque stage, techniques involved cloth simulation, lighting control, and image mapping. McGrath’s images, with their rich painterly quality and layered visual space, evoke a distinctly Baroque aesthetic

This series reimagines classical mythology by combining 18th-century ceramic-style figures with vibrant Plexiglas overlays, creating a dialogue between tradition and modernity through layered color and light.

This series juxtaposes archival libraries with Australian bushland, weaving themes of memory, nature, and transformation through delicate animal motifs.

Flooded Baroque by James McGrath reimagines historic libraries submerged in water, blending themes of cultural fragility and climate change in haunting, reflective stillness.

Video installation for Sculpture by the Sea 2010, projected onto the rocks of Tamarama Beach. It highlights the vast expanse of abandoned fishing nets drifting through the ocean.