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Artists Profile - Ross Coulter

Ross Coulter

Name

Ross Coulter

Visual Artist


Education
Current Master of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2007 Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Performances
2011 10,000 Paper Planes, La Trobe Reading Room, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2010

Untrained, Lucy Guerin Inc. Adelaide Festival and APAM, Adelaide

Asia Pacific Dance Platform, Hong Kong

2009 Untrained, Lucy Guerin Inc. Dance Massive, Arts House Meat Markets, Melbourne Spring Dance, Sydney Opera House.
Solo Exhibitions
2010

Prelude, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy

Sub 12, Substation, Newport

Multiplex, Techno Park, North Williamstown

2009 Ad Hominen, West Space, Melbourne
2008

Man Running..., Center for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy

MC VD, Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy

2002

Based on a True Story, Flying Horse, Windsor

Based on a True Story, FUN - Under the Manhattan Bridge, New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011

Body Language (Getting Lost in Translation), Bus Gallery, Melbourne

Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Traveling Scholarship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, Melbourne

ANL Art Prize and Exhibition, Mission to the Seafarers, Southbank

Telepathy & Love: The Spanish Apartment, The Australia Council for the Arts Barcelona Studio, Barcelona, Spain

Telepathy & Love: The Spanish Apartment, West Space, Melbourne

Today Your Love, West Space, Melbourne

2010 Imaging the Apple, AC Institute, NYC
2009

The Body Electric (with Meredith Turnbull), Conical, Fitzroy

Seppuku, Lindberg Contemporary Art, Collingwood

Someone looking at Something..., West Space, Melbourne

We Only Ever Meet On The Astral Plane (with Michael Georgetti), Michael Koro Gallery, Melbourne

Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Traveling Scholarship, Margaret Lawrence Gallery - VCA, Melbourne

A4 Art Show, West Space, Melbourne

2008

Fuck Your Heroes,West Space, Melbourne

Worlds End, Carlton Hotel, Melbourne

Play Heads, Alliance Française Gallery, St Kilda

Contemporary Australian Video Art Screening, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Chris Doyle's Ecstatic City Miniplex, (Melbourne International Arts Festival) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Prosthetic Animals, Cube 37, Frankston

Mono Brow, Hell Gallery, Richmond

A4 Art Show, West Space, Melbourne

2007

Experimental & Conceptual Shorts Program, Melbourne International Film Festival

National Graduation Exhibition, Federation Square, Melbourne

Camera Obscura, TCB Gallery, Melbourne

Melbourne Operatic, Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand

Melbourne Operatic, Loop, Melbourne

Hungry Like The Wolf, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne

Athenaeum Club Award Exhibition, Athenaeum Club, Melbourne

VCA Graduation Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2006

Pleasantries, Alliance Française Gallery, St Kilda

VCA Graduation Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

2005

ViDeO 24/7, Glitch, North Fitzroy

Making Conditions of Love, Melbourne Art Rooms, Port Melbourne

Proud 05, Margaret Lawrence Gallery - VCA, Melbourne

Dark Room, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne

2004

Ulrich National Photographic Prize, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery, Tweed River

Proud 04, Margaret Lawrence Gallery - VCA, Melbourne

Photography Grad Show, Span Gallery, Melbourne

Curatorial Projects
2008 Fuck Your Heroes, West Space, Melbourne
2006 Check This Video, Melbourne
2005 Dark Room, VCA Student Gallery
Awards / Grants
2011 Keith & Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship
2010

Georges Mora Foundation Fellow

Arts Victoria Creation (Visual Arts) Grant

2009 Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant
2008 City of Melbourne Arts Grant (Presentation)
2007

Orloff Family Charitable Trust Scholarship

Alliance Française Award

2006 National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award
2005

Proud 05 "Best Video Art Work" (ACMI)

Proud 05 "Highly Commended" (Tolarno Gallery)

Stella Dilger Encouragement Award

1998 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia - "Best TV Entertainment"
1996 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia - "Best TV Entertainment"
1995 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia - "Best TV Entertainment"
Other Commissioned Work
2010 Director and producer of video interview for John Meade's traveling survey exhibition "Objects to Live By: The Art of John Meade."
Other Activities
2011

Deakin University, Lecturer in Photography

Monash University, Lecturer in Visual Art and Photography

2009 - Current Member of West Space Program Committee, Artist Run Initiative
2009 - 2010 Lecturer in Visual Art and Photography, Swinburne TAFE
2008 Jesuit Social Services Gateway Studio, Community Cultural Development Artist in residence
Publications
June 2011 10,000 Paper Planes, Miller, T., Un Magazine, Issue 5.1
19 June 2010 Artist wins grant to float paper planes in State Library $10,000 up in the air, Plant, S., Herald Sun
February 2010

Opinion: Ross Coulter - Prelude, Wilson, K., ArtInfo.com.au
http://www.artinfo.com.au/articles/read/ross-coulter-prelude

23 April 2010

PlaneStars: Ross Coulter's Prelude, Wagstaff, A., Dead Hare Melbourne Art Review
http://deadhareartreview.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

11 February 2010

Prelude, Kent, V., Review Swapper-Artpals
http://artpals.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/prelude/

27 February 2010 Foursome Creates Sublime Mix, Burdon, P., The Advertiser, p72
4 September 2009 Amateurs take the spotlight, steal laughs, Sykes, J., Sydney Morning Herald, p16
June 2009

Marks of Absence: Technology, Identity and the Idealised Body in The Body Electric, Blair, U., Flash
http://www.ccp.org.au/flash/2009/06/coulter-turnbull/

2009

Nothing Hidden - Much Gained, Nilsson-Polias, C, RealTime Arts Magazine
http://www.realtimearts.net/feature/Dance_Massive/9384

2009

Reality Dance - Lucy Guerin Inc, Untrained, Gallasch, K, RealTime Arts Magazine
http://www.realtimearts.net/feature/Dance_Massive/9382