INFINITE SYSTEMS

June 15 to July 2, 2023
James Makin Gallery, Melbourne


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.

Read the catalogue essay by Peter Hill here.
View available works online here

Photo Credits: Ivana Smiljanic