Emma’s artwork balancing act, has be selected as a finalist in the 2024, Stanthorpe Art Prize at the new Stanthorpe Regional Gallery in Qld.

The Stanthorpe Art Prize is a biennial event that celebrates creativity in all its forms, featuring artists from far and wide sharing their unique perspectives and talents.

“My work explores both a formal and conceptual approach through the subject of ‘balancing’. Formally, the deconstructed and recomposed forms, imagine a line drawing as a three-dimensional composition, balancing through line, shape and colour. Conceptually, the work refers to the push-pull of the artist’s domestic life, as artist and mother.” ⁠ ⁠- Emma Coulter 2024

The Stanthorpe Art Prize exhibition will run from 7 September to 10 November. Winners will be announced on Friday 6 September 2024.⁠

Judges are Noosa Regional Gallery Director, Michael Brennan, and Bendigo Gallery Director Jessica Bridgfoot.

James Makin Gallery are thrilled to be presenting a new body of paintings by Coulter at the forthcoming Sydney Contemporary Art Fair.

Sydney Contemporary 2024

Collectors Preview - Wednesday September 4, 2pm to 8pm
General Admission - Thursday September 5 to Sat September 8, 11am to 5pm
Opening night - Thursday September 5 until 9pm and Friday September 6 late night until 8pm

Carriageworks
245 Wilson Street
Eveleigh, Sydney

Please contact the gallery for a preview of works info@jamesmakingallery.com

Image: the folded space, 2024, 153 x 244cm

The Omnia Art Prize and Exhibition is an annual art competition open to established and emerging Australian contemporary artists.

Works selected for the 2024 exhibition will be on display from May 24-26 in a beautiful gallery space at St Kevin’s College, Toorak. Artworks can be purchased at the event or online through the art shop.

All proceeds go to support the charitable work of the St Kevin’s College Foundation which supports the education of students in need.

2024 Guest Judge to award the $15,000 major prize is Dr Rebecca Coates, Director of Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)

Bayside Painting Prize finalists Exhibition: May 3 to June 23, 2024

Emma is thrilled to be a finalist with her painting, ‘expand and collapse’, 2024.

The Bayside Painting Prize remains a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today.

The annual prize is an important opportunity for Bayside City Council to add exceptional works of art with a local connection to its collection and to promote art and artists as a valuable part of the Australian community.

The finalist exhibition will be held at Bayside Gallery from 3 May to 23 June 2024.

Judges
The judges for the 2024 prize are:

Dr Rebecca Coates, Director, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)
Stieg Persson, Artist

Emma Coulter responds to the landmark architecture and space of the Shepparton Art Museum through a new site-specific art wall commission titled spatial deconstruction #30 (social fabric).
Drawing upon the idea of SAM being both an ‘art container’ and communal space for social interaction, Coulter responds to architectural elements of the building’s form. This multicoloured intervention wraps the art wall in a new sculptural form. Coulter intuitively deconstructs the feelings and elements of the architectural envelope and reconfigures them through the lens of her practice, creating a composition that is both uniquely hers and a distinct reflection upon the vertical geometry of the SAM Building.

Her work, spatial deconstruction #30 (social fabric), marks the 30th in her series of spatial deconstruction works that she has been developing for the last decade.

Shepparton Art Museum - Furphy Family Art Wall, Level 4

INFINITE SYSTEMS SOLO EXHIBITION @ JAMES MAKIN GALLERY
EXHIBITION RUNS 15 June – 2 July 2023
Gallery hours: 12 to 5pm, Thurs to Sun

In her latest body of work, infinite systems, Coulter explores the limitless possibilities of the application of her idiosyncratic colour system across various supports. Through her expanded painting practice and spatial outcomes, Coulter makes reference to the mystical, conceptual and organisational device of the grid: autonomous works, composed within the demarcated surfaces of traditional canvas supports, sculptural steel structures and the gallery walls itself. These mediums create boundaries, providing a framework for the infinite system for coloured geometric shapes and structures to play out, interconnect, repel and at times deceive the eye. Perceptual optics challenge the navigation of space through colour vibrations. Whilst Coulter’s works are self-referential, the infinite compositions of tessellated geometry and spectral colour appear almost cropped from a much larger conceptual fabric, referring to something well beyond the frame. Through her chromo-spatial practice, the artist challenges the possibilities of the physical boundaries of her spatial supports.

Coulter works with colour in a serial way through a refined colour palette. Developed throughout her extensive artistic career and meticulous practice, she has created her own bold, idiosyncratic spectrum. This chromatic language, like her expansion of the supports of her individual works, is apparent across the entirety of Coulter’s practice and situated distinct bodies of work outside of their moment of exhibition, in dialogue with each other. Her work is an investigation into the semantics of colour and form – the creation of meaning and language through spatial and colour arrangements in infinite systems.

Photo Ivana Smiljanic

Making the Metro Tunnel – reflections by contemporary Australian artists

Domain House, Botanical Gardens (former ACCA Building)
Exhibition runs: 1 April – 7 May 2023

open 11am-5pm Wednesday to Sunday, from 1 April to 7 May, at Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, South Yarra.

Presented by the Metro Tunnel Creative Program.

Image by Charlie Kinross