Maryanne Coutts

Position title:

Lecturer in drawing and painting.

Qualifications

• BA (Fine Arts), VCA
• Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education, University of Ballarat
• Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies, University of New South Wales
• Ph.D, University of Ballarat

Statement

Working with a definition of narrative as an intersection between space, time and narrative voice, Maryanne Coutts’ research investigates the nature of narrative in relation to painting. This analytic approach shifts between work which focuses on narration through self reflexive strategies and work which investigates ways of conveying time through the spatial vehicle of painting. Through an engagement with processes of animation, She has become increasingly fascinated by the further potential to investigate a narrative space, through a time based medium.

Research Outcomes

Maryanne Coutts’ painting, drawing and animation have been recognised by a number of awards. She has exhibited extensively in both solo as well as juried and curated exhibitions throughout Australia.

Research / Professional Activities

Academic Awards and prizes  

• 2007 Dean’s Teaching Award, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University
•  Portia Geach Memorial Award, Sydney
•  Tattersall’s Contemporary Art Award 
•  St.Vincent’s Hospital Artist Residency  

Bibliography (Selected) 

Catalogue essays  

• Wise, K & Ken Smith, Drawing 2003, Monash University 2003
• Neeson, John, Imaging the Apple, 2004
• Wallis, Geoff, Eye to I, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2007
• Stratford, Noela (Essay), Plus, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 2006

Group Exhibitions

2007

• Eye to I, Touring Exhibition of Self Portraits by 42 artists. Australia
• Dawn to Dusk, Delmar Gallery, Sydney

2006 

• Plus, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
• Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
• Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
• 2005 Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery         
• 2004 Imaging the Apple, Touring
• Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

• 2007 Night, Span, Melbourne
• 2005 Weather, Span, Melbourne
• 2005 Recent Work, Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat
• 2003 Ode to Gutenberg, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
• 2000 Dog Tales, Linden Gallery and Art Centre, Melbourne
• 2000 Subplots and Framing Narratives, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery