NEW WOMAN EXHIBITION, 2019 TO 2020
Museum of Brisbane, 13 September until 15 March 2020
New Woman presents a snapshot of the art, personal stories and enduring legacies of Brisbane’s most significant and ground-breaking women artists between 1920-2019 reflected in painting, photography, sculpture, performance and installation works on a scale never before seen.
“New Woman will reveal the stunning works of female pioneers, their evolving practice and the identity of women artists in Brisbane. The exhibition draws upon our collections, loans as well as commissioned works, highlighting women of the past, present and future, documenting their changing role and acknowledging diversity”.
Director, Renai Grace
Commissioned for 'New Woman' at Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia.
Emma Coulter, spatial deconstruction #21 (portals),
Dome Gallery, 2019 to 2020
synthetic polymer paint on interior architecture
14 x 7 x 8 metres x 4.4m height
Curated by Miranda Hine
As part of ‘NEW WOMAN’, a centenary exhibition, celebrating ground breaking female artists of Brisbane origin, Coulter was invited to create a unique site-specific work in the Dome Gallery at Museum of Brisbane.
Through, ‘spatial deconstruction #21 (portals)’, Emma Coulter, draws upon the inherent structure of the architectural space of the dome gallery to reinterpret the room as a three dimensional support for site specific painting, extending the painting frame into the viewers perception.
Articulated through a distinct language, associated with Coulter’s practice, of restricted colour, scale and intersecting geometry, the site specific intervention traverses across the connecting interior surfaces to create a painting that can be physically entered into.
In her practice, Emma sees colour as a conceptual idea that through arrangement, placement, proportion and geometry can be manipulated to create deliberate outcomes.
Through her work Coulter consciously aims to challenge the hierarchy of the art institution and fine art, by blurring boundaries between place, painting and the viewer’s experience.
Of Coulter’s work, curator Miranda Hine says, “The painting doesn’t submit to the room. We step into the painting.” (Artguide Australia, Sept, 2019).
Photo Credits: Emma Coulter
