One eye on the sky
Hilary Coulter
300mm x 300mm x 50mm /
3D Works
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2nd Place: 3D Works
The reality of living in a rural area where livelihoods are affected by rainfall, is that you are always thinking, talking and maybe even dreaming about the weather. Ever hopeful for rain (except for those few times a year when you don’t want it), everyone has their favourite source for the weather forecast – their favourite app or perhaps favourite news service. When you travel you will be asked about the weather at home and if ‘it looks like rain’, and you will most likely check in with those at home to see how accurate the forecast was. Always checking, always hoping: one eye on the sky.
Curator’s Comment
While this work appears quiet and unassuming, it is powerful through its subtlety and intimate detail which acts to draw the viewer in to inspect the surface detail of the work. It is a sensitive outcome rendered through a restrained palette. The artwork statement is well-written and clearly articulates an authentic conceptual context and an immersive engagement with rural lived experience.
About the artist
Hilary Coulter is an artist working with watercolour and embroidery. She is largely self-taught in her art practice which combines a mixture of watercolour, material, thread and beads to create colourful compositions of colour, texture and subject.