QUT ART MUSEUM, 2021 to 2021.
Thinking into Being, QUT Alumni Triennial, QUT ART MUSEUM,
9 October 2021 - 27 February 2022, Brisbane, Australia.
Curated by Vanessa Van Ooyen and Katherine Dionysius
The fourth in a series of triennial alumni exhibitions, Thinking into Being, explores QUT’s unique cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach to teaching and learning. The exhibition brings together work by QUT graduates who have become leading creative practitioners both nationally and internationally.
As a selected alumni artist for QUT’s fourth Alumni Triennial, ‘Thinking into Being’, Emma Coulter was invited to exhibit a body of work as well as create a new site specific work, spatial deconstruction #26 (window intervention), at QUT Art Museum, in Brisbane.
Symbolising a connection between the educational and the institutional this intervention, ‘spatial deconstruction #26’, is an introvert/ extrovert structure, that simultaneously pushes out from the museum walls, into the public university, whilst retracting into the gallery space, through two highly chromatic, site-specific interventions, inserted in between the museum interior and exterior, on both the southern and western facades.
Whilst the two interventions are physically separated, the installation is one work, that can only completely be experienced through a transition around the outside of the gallery space and into the museum.
Context and perceptual optics challenge the audience to perceive the way, that we receive the work both physically and metaphorically, whilst this new work also represents a breakthrough work for the artist, in realising her painted spatial deconstruction works through a sculptural intervention.
Alongside her new site specific work, Coulter reinstalled ‘adaptable construction #2’, in it’s third iteration, having previously been presented at Anna Pappas Gallery, and at the Victorian College of the Arts. Inspired from her residency in Germany in 2018, funded through an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, her series of ‘Ornamental Symmetrie’, paintings were also shown, alongside a vitrine of her process work.
Catalogue exhibition text by Dr Rachael Haynes.
Coulter has two undergraduate degrees from QUT, A Bachelor of Built Environment, and a Bachelor of Visual Art, as well as a postgraduate degree from VCA, a Masters of Contemporary Art.
Photo Credits: Image 1, Emma Coulter, Images 2 to 6 Louis Lim. Courtesy QUT ART Museum, ‘Thinking into Being’, Alumni Triennial.
