NotFair 2021

May 20-27 & June 11-13

Biography

Ash Coates

Ash Coates is a multi-disciplinary artist. His practice involves, but is not limited to, painting, animation/video, installation and digital art. Across these mediums the artist conjures environmental and scientific narratives, while gleaning reference materials from the landscape, personal events, mythology and science fiction\horror films. Often using tropes and metaphors from a broad range of sources, Coates work has a tendency to explore weird biological and social phenomena. He has a distinct aesthetic that straddles traditional and non-traditional techniques and he uses these to create worlds that blur the line between what is natural and what is unnatural. Coates has completed a bachelor’s degree with Honours in visual art and has exhibited widely. His animations have been screened at various galleries and festivals, including the Adelaide Festival Centre, Kofu City International Art Festival (Japan), University of Mary Washington (USA), Willoughby Art Biennale, Gertrude Projection Festival and more. In 2019, he was selected for the Rio Tinto’s, Martin Hansen Memorial Art Prize and was the recipient of both the Crow Street Creative Award and the People’s Choice Award. In 2018 he won the Eureka Art Prize and in 2017 he was selected for the Rio Tinto’s, Martin Hansen Memorial Art Prize and won the CQ University Award. He also received the Ballarat Arts Foundation’s Project Assistants Grant, the People’s Choice Award at the ANL Maritime Art Awards and residencies with WASPS studios in Edinburgh and Fife, Scotland and also with AIRY Kofu in Kofu City, Japan.

Works

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Ash Coates Transorganics 2020, acrylic on polyester, 91 x 91 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Ash Coates Others 2020, acrylic on polyester, 81 x 57 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Ash Coates Tangle 2021, acrylic on linen, 81 x 61 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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 Ash Coates Hero 2021, acrylic on linen, 121 x 91 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Ash Coates Portrait (2) 2021, acrylic on linen, 56 x 51 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Ash Coates Beacon 2021, acrylic on linen, 121 x 121 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Ash Coates Chimera 2021, acrylic on linen, 121 x 91 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Ash Coates Plastitrophic 2021, video installation, dimensions variable. Photograph by Simon Strong.

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NotFair 2021 installation view. Photograph by Simon Strong.

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NotFair 2021 installation view. Photograph by Simon Strong.

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NotFair 2021 installation view. Photograph by Simon Strong.

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