Born Northern Ireland 1978, immigrated to Melbourne, Australia aged two.
EDUCATION
2015 Master of Contemporary Art, (first class honours), Victorian College of Arts
2000 Bachelor of Built Environment, (with distinction), Queensland University of Technology
1998 Bachelor of Visual Art, Queensland University of Technology
PUBLIC ART + MUSEUM COMMISSIONS
2023 spatial deconstruction #30 (social fabric), Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2023 let them feel the light, Yarrila Place, Coffs Harbour Cultural Centre, Coffs Harbour NSW
2022 spatial deconstruction #28 (the grid), The Eighth, CREMA constructions, South Melbourne
2022 spatial deconstruction #27 (cutout), Burt Healy Pavilion, Malvern East, Melbourne
2021 spatial deconstruction #26 (window intervention), QUT ART MUSEUM
2021 spatial deconstruction #25 (perceptual vortex), Footscray Community Arts Centre, Footscray, Melbourne
2021 spatial deconstruction #23 (resilience), City Square, Melbourne for the Metro Tunnel creative program
2020 spatial deconstruction #24 (wrapper), Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
2020 spatial deconstruction #22 (rainbow shelter), Burnett Lane, Brisbane
2020 William Jolly Bridge projection, multichromatic synaesthesia, Brisbane
2019 spatial deconstruction #21 (portals), Dome Gallery, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2018 spatial deconstruction #19 (inversion), Latrobe Art Institute, Bendigo
2016 spatial deconstruction #15 (gemstone with fireplace), LINDEN New Art, Melbourne
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS
2023 infinite systems, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2019-20 portals, Dome Gallery, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2019 composites, dianne tanzer gallery + this is no fantasy, Melbourne
2018 doppel symmetrie, ADHOC, Bochum, Germany
2017 trace patterns, PALMER, Sydney
2017 trace patterns preview, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2015 threshold intervention, VCA gallery, Southbank
2015 chrominance, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2015 chromo-spatial, CHASM, Brooklyn, New York
2014 deconstructed painting, VCA gallery, Southbank
2014 threshold, five walls projects, Footscray, Melbourne
2013 transposition, pieces of eight, Melbourne
2012 shedding skin, Frankston Arts Centre, Mornington Peninsula
2011 viscerality, Kunstraum Tapir, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
2011 shedding skin, forty five downstairs, Melbourne, Victoria
2009 memory space, Jacob Hoerner, Melbourne, Victoria
2007 twofold, Jacob Hoerner, Melbourne, Victoria
2006 Emma Coulter works, Clayton Utz, Riparian Plaza, Brisbane
2005 unseen, Fox Galleries, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne
2023 New Acquisitions, ANZ gallery, Docklands, Victoria
2023 Arthur Guy Memorial Finalists Exhibition, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2023 Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood, Victoria
2023 The art of the metrotunnel, Domain House, Melbourne, Victoria
2022 Women in Abstraction, ANZ gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2021 Thinking into being, Alumni Triennial, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, Qld
2021 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery, Redleaf, Sydney, NSW
2021 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Qld
2021 Footscray Art Prize, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Victoria
2021 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Gallery, Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria
2020 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast, Qld
2020 FIVE TEN TWENTY TWENTY, five walls, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria
2019 NEW WOMAN, Centenary Exhibition, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2019 Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize, Montsalvat, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 support structure, Latrobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Victoria
2018 Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Burwood, Victoria
2018 WAVE, BSA project space, Byron School of Art, Mullumbimby, NSW
2017 9X5NOW, ART150 Historical Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne
2017 Mixed tape, PALMER projects, Sydney, NSW
2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Council Chambers, Sydney, NSW
2016 Linden Art Prize, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
2015 VCA masters exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, St Kilda Rd, Victoria
2015 faux fair, c3 artspace, The Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford, Victoria
2015 colour imperative, Rubicon ARI, North Melbourne, Victoria
2014 marvel, the windsor prize, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria
2014 no werk, trocadero artspace, Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria
2014 parking lot, VCA gallery, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria
2013 abstractions, janet clayton gallery, Sydney, New South Wales
2013 the hills are alive, Paradise Hills Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria
2013 artmonth emerging artists finalists exhibition, Depot two, Sydney, New South Wales
2012 from paradise, James Makin Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria
2012 studio club, Paradise Hills Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria
2011 the space between, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
VARIOUS SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS + OTHER COMMISSIONS
2023 spatial deconstruction #29 (splice), James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2022 spectrum warp #3, painting commission for Metro Tunnel Collection
2019 spatial deconstruction #20 (barn intervention), Montsalvat, Melbourne
2018 insitu painting #01, (composites), dianne tanzer gallery + this is no fantasy, Melbourne
2018 spatial deconstruction #18, (doppel symmetrie), adhocraum, Bochum, Germany
2018 spatial deconstruction #17, (wave), BSA project space, Byron Bay
2017 spatial deconstruction #16, (truncated geometry), PALMER, Sydney
2015 spatial deconstruction #13 and #14, (hood and spectrum), 'beyond painting', VCA
2015 spatial deconstruction #12, (warped apex), Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2015 spatial deconstruction #11, (prismatic), CHASM, Brooklyn, New York
2014 spatial deconstruction #10, (collision), Five Walls Projects, Footscray, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #09, (marvel intervention), Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #08, (the alter), 17 Wills st, Art Deco Building, Melbourne CBD
2014 spatial deconstruction #07, (rainbow), VCA open day, VCA, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #06 (equilateral), VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #05, (cube), Black Hole, VCA, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #04, (vortex), VCA project space, VCA, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #03, (window), VCA studio, VCA, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #02, (pendant), Bracks corridor, VCA, Melbourne
2014 spatial deconstruction #01, (prism), the Cage, VCA, Melbourne
2014 private painting commission, Artesian Investments
2013 installation, pieces of eight facade, Russell Place, Melbourne
2013 private painting commission, domestic space
2012 private painting commission, domestic space
AWARDS/ PRIZES/ RESIDENCIES
2024 Finalist, Bayside Painting Prize
2023 Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Prize
2023 Finalist, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
2022 RECIPIENT, Creative Victoria, sustaining creative workers grant
2021 WINNER, Footscray Art Prize (mural category)
2021 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art prize
2021 Finalist, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
2021 Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Award
2020 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art prize
2019 Finalist, Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize
2018 RECIPIENT, Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant
2018 Finalist, Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
2016 WINNER, Linden Art Prize, Linden New Art
2016 WINNER, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Viewer’s Choice Award
2015 RECIPIENT, Fiona Myer Award for excellence, VCA, University of Melbourne
2015 RECIPIENT, NAVA Australian Artists Grant
2014 RECIPIENT, Jim Marks Postgraduate Scholarship, VCA, University of Melbourne
2014 RECIPIENT, faculty grant, VCA, University of Melbourne
2014 Finalist, the Windsor Prize, VCA, Hotel Windsor
2013 Finalist, NAB artist award (artmonth Sydney)
2011 RECIPIENT, takt kunstprojektstraum residency, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
2000 RECIPIENT, Deans Award for Excellence – Faculty of Built Environment + Engineering
2000 RECIPIENT, QUT Head of School Award (School of Architecture)
1999 RECIPIENT, QUT Head of School Award (School of Architecture)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY/ PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Peter Hill, infinite systems, catalogue essay, 2023
Sophia Cai, Beyond the canvas, Artist Profile magazine, Issue 63, 2023
Christina Karras, Melbourne Artist Emma Coulter, Design Files,June 2023
Kirkham Laura, Women in Abstraction, Catalogue Essay, October, 2022
Public Art Forum, Artist talk, Linden New Art, Feb 2022
Haynes, Rachael, ‘Emma Coulter, spatial deconstructions’, QUT Thinking into being Catalogue, QUT Art Museum, 2021
Emma-Kate Wilson, Exploring Public Art through the Practice of Emma Coulter, Mutual Art, July 14, 2021
Jessica Ankomah, Footscray Art Prize | Artist in Focus: Emma Coulter, June 22, 2021
Gina Fairley, ‘On gender, pay and public art’, Visual ArtsHub, March 22 2021
Brown, Phil, Women Rule at the Museum of Brisbane, Courier Mail, Sept 13, 2019
Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant Interview with Emma Coulter, The Coronet #11, Sept 2019
Museum of Brisbane Online Interview, Artist Profile:Emma Coulter, Sept 03, 2019
Holt, Jack, Exhibition Celebrates Brisbane Female Artists, The Source, Sept 12, 2019
Sheridan Hart, A new look at the women who shaped Brisbane’s art scene, artguide Australia, Sept 10, 2019
Art Forum, guest speaker, marketing on a shoe string budget, Linden New Art, May 2019
Wilson, Emma-Kate, 'Emma Coulter', Ocula, January, 2019
Blouin art info, Emma Coulter’s Composites, October, 2018
Art Collector, Emma Coulter: Composites, online, October, 2018
Jane Llewllyn, ‘50 Things Collectors Need to Know 2017’, Art Collector, #79 Jan 2017, p150-1
Brent Hallard, ‘All things possible: Emma Coulter’, Visual Discrepancies, Painters Table Magazine, Feb 22 2017
Joel Meares, ‘Visual Art: trace patterns’, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, February 18 2017
Elle Murrell, ‘Trace Patterns’, The Design Files, February 16, 2017
Meet the artists: Linden Art Prize, Public talk, Linden New Art, April 17 2016
Artbites: Linden Art Prize 2016, videography, April, 2016
Gina Fairley, 'Women are the winners', Visual Artshub, November 09 2016
Maura Edmond, ‘Emma Coulter, Chrominance’, Primer, May 2015
Alex McCulloch, ‘chrominance’, Interview, The Arts show, May 05 2015
Freya Herring, ‘Art News: Best in shows: Space Invader’, Vogue Living, May/June 2015
Tess Ritchie, 'Top Ten forces and faces 2015, Emma Coulter', DQ Magazine, Issue 57, 2015
Alex McCulloch, ‘threshold’, Interview, The Arts show, September 15 2014
Tess Ritchie, ‘Site specific art: Emma Coulter’, Habitus living, July 28 2014
Lisa Omagari, ‘Emma Coulter’, Artsfrontline, The Brag, August 14 2013
Penny Modra, 'Shedding Skin', Melbourne M Magazine, The Age, April 29 2011
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
ANZ The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
City of Melbourne
QUT Art Museum
Footscray Community Centre
Artesian Capital Management
Spruson and Ferguson Patent Attorney Lawyers
Citybank Corporate
Private Collections Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Germany, Singapore, London
VIDEOGRAPHY
Behind the scenes of the METRO TUNNEL Creative Program, Interview with Emma Coulter
Footscray Art Prize, Winner Interview,
Linden Art Prize 2016, Artist Interview