PALMER is thrilled to present TRACE PATTERNS, a new body of work by Melbourne based artist Emma Coulter from Wednesday 8th February 2017 - Saturday 4th March 2017. 
 

Emma Coulter’s new body of work operates in an expanded field between painting, sculpture and spatial practice, continuing and expanding her rigorous investigations into the use of ‘colour as idea’ through formations which work beyond the use of paint as a material and begin to explore the ephemerality of both coloured light and reflection as mediums.
 

Borrowing processes from architectural thought, Coulter’s practice utilises acts of painting to transform, construct and alter environments, objects and surfaces. At the centre of her work exists the use of colour as a language to define spatial outcomes. Simultaneously negotiating between the formal and the kitsch; the concrete and the ephemeral. Her aim is to challenge boundaries and make connections between the high and the low, history and currency, the intellectual and the ornamental.
 

In her work, colour is used as a ‘common’ agent to navigate between these opposing forces, where the central concern exists around space, and her preoccupation with its’ utilisation as a ‘medium’. Through her work the parameters of site, situation and spatiality are examined, delineated and repurposed to construct new realities, to question the distance between place, painting and the autonomous art object.

ABOUT EMMA COULTER
 

In 2016, Emma Coulter won the Linden Art Prize and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Viewers Choice Award and in 2015 was awarded the Fiona Myer Award for Excellence at VCA. Having exhibited both nationally and internationally, Coulter holds a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts, (2015), a Bachelor of Visual Art, (1998) and a Bachelor of Built Environment (2000) from QUT. Selected solo exhibitions include, Chrominance (2015) Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, Chromo-spatial (2015) CHASM, New York, Threshold (2014) Five Walls, Melbourne, and Viscerality (2011) Kunstraum Tapir Gallery, Berlin, as well as numerous group exhibitions, including, Colour Imperative (2015) Rubicon ARI, Faux Fair (2015) c3 Artspace, No Werk (2014) Trocadero Artspace, Melbourne, Abstractions, (2013) Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney, and The Space Between (2011), Berlin.