A ceramic sculpture, resemblant of other-worldly plant matter is situated in a black void. It's Matte white on the outside and dark black glazed internal space.

A ceramic sculpture, resemblant of other-worldly plant matter is situated in a black void. It's matte white on the outside.

All is Ephemeral

Visual Arts and Design • Exhibition

Victoria

Kohl Tyler's other-worldly suite of ceramic sculptures and watercolour paintings explore themes of loss, and through a stoic lens, question contemporary values around preservation and life's ephemerality.

Imagined vestiges evoke familiar yet ambiguous fossilised life forms dawning weathered surfaces covered with bone-like glazes. While blurred watercolour paintings, cased in sculptural ceramic frames, depict remembered moments of natural phenomena.

Marcus Aurelius's meditation: "All is ephemeral, both memory and the object of memory" (1) springs to mind during this time of biological decline.

1. Aurelius, M. (2002). The Meditations. Random House.

Presented by: Kohl Tyler

Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa-born Melbourne-based Artist working across watercolour, ceramics, and social practice.

Tyler’s art practice is centered in her interest in the ever-changing and complex ecology of the globalised world. She navigates the interplay between contemporary society and non-human beings and explores how these worlds may relate to and impact one another. Other threads in her practice include an interest in relational aesthetics theory and moments of natural phenomena.

Tyler received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design (N.Z.) in 2016. In 2017, she was awarded the Estuary Art and Ecology Award (AKL, NZ). In 2022, she received a City of Melbourne Art Grant. Her work is held in the public collection of the Gippsland Art Gallery (VIC).

This exhibition is held at FELTspace in the back gallery. Please enter through the front gallery.