In her practice Kohl Tyler contemplates notions of ephemerality, interconnectedness and one’s place within the cosmos. Drawing inspiration from both physical and phenomenal elements of the natural world she processes her ecological grief, making work that posits future ecologies, imagined organic remnants or attempts to archive fleeting biodiversity. She works across ceramic sculpture, watercolour painting, and social practice.
Kohl Tyler is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist who’s been based in Naarm/Melbourne since 2018. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 2016 and was awarded the Artist Alliance Graduate Award in 2016. In 2017, she won the Estuary Art and Ecology Award at Malcolm Smith Gallery in Auckland, NZ. She has presented solo exhibitions in Aotearoa and Australia including; All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (2024), Signals, Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2022), and Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (2020). In 2022 she presented Offerings, a social art installation held at the UNESCO heritage-listed Carlton Gardens in Naarm, Australia, supported by the City of Melbourne Art Grants. Her work is held in the collection of the Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC and in private collections throughout Australia and Aotearoa.
Awards & Achievements
2024 - OMNIA Art Prize, St Kevin’s College, Melbourne, VIC (Finalist)
2023 - Anne Runhart Art Award, NotFair Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC (Finalist)
2022 - Quick Response Arts Grant, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC (Recipient)
2021 - Small Artwork Prize, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC (Finalist)
2019 - Lethbridge 2000 Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD (Finalist)
2017 - Estuary Art and Ecology Awards, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland, NZ (Winner)
2016 - Artist Alliance Graduate Award, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, NZ (Winner)
Collections
Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC.
Education
2016 - Bachelor of Fine Art, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design, Auckland, NZ.
Residencies
2023 - Guest Artist in Residence, Northcote Pottery Supplies, Melbourne, VIC.
Selected Exhibitions
Upcoming: Ceramics Now, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2024 - OMNIA Art Prize, St Kevin’s College, Melbourne, VIC
2024 - Ceramics, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2024 - Botanical Spells, CBOne Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2024 - All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (Solo Exhibition)
2023 - ALCHEMY, NotFair Art Fair, Melbourne, VIC
2022 - Recent Acquisitions, Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC
2022 - Signals, PG Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (Solo Exhibition)
2022 - Offerings, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, VIC (Public installation)
2021 - WRAP Small Artwork Prize, East Gippsland Art Gallery, Gippsland, VIC
2020 - Umbra, NOVACANCY Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (Solo Exhibition)
2020 - Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (Solo Exhibition)
2020 - Metamorph, NOVACANCY Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2019 - Friends and Family, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2019 - Lethbridge 20000 Art Award, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2018 - collect.document.archive, Weasle Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2018 - Trace, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2018 - Ngā Tipu Taketake - Indigenous Flora. Touring Exhibition: Auckland Botanical Gardens, Wellington Botanical Gardens, & Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, NZ.
2017 - Purlieus, Skinroom Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (Solo Exhibition)
2017 - Estuary Art and Ecology Prize, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2017 - Art of Giving, Bayleys House, Auckland, NZ
2017 - Paperhouse, Alberton Heritage Building, Auckland, NZ
2017 - Paperwork, DEMO, Auckland, NZ
2016 - Grad Show, Whittecliffe College of Fine Art, Auckland, NZ
2015 - Natures [Un] Natural, This That Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2015 - Dealing with Misanthropy, Pearce Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2015 - Borderline, Pearce Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2014 - Painting(s), Karangahape Road Mercury Theatre, Auckland, NZ