SUPPORT STRUCTURE, 2018
LATROBE ART INSTITUTE, 13 November – 23 December 2018

Emma Coulter
spatial deconstruction # 19 (inversion)
synthetic polymer paint in room
400 x 400 x 450cm

Curated by Dr. Kent Wilson

Emma Coulter, Jake Walker, Louise Blyton, Mumu Mike Williams, Sam Martin

TEXT FROM THE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
For some time there has been a push to recognise the objectness of painting –to acknowledge that two-dimensional pictures rendered on surfaces of canvas and board are something more than planar images.

After all, the materials required to produce a painting are three-dimensional liquids, cloths, timbers and powders. So it’s fair to make a case that paintings are sculptural objects to some extent. They are not sculptures, but they are in some sense sculptural.

Support Structure assembles the work of artists who paint in a sculptural way. Acknowledging the physicality of paintings these artists produce artwork that blurs the boundary between media and offers ways of rethinking the nature of contemporary painting.

For this exhibition, Coulter, created a new site specific work, as a part of her ongoing series, ‘spatial deconstruction # 19 (inversion)’ . Through the work the artist attempts to reorganise the hierarchy of spaces within the institution, through the uncovering and reemphasis of historic architectural idiosyncrasies, repurposed through a bold alter-like spectrum.