Amber Koroluk-Stephenson

Mother’s Tongue considers personal, cultural and maternal notions of legacy and inheritance, blurring boundaries between histories and possibilities of place. This exhibition draws on European mythologies and ideals, art history,...

read Weekend Magazine review by Andrew Harper Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s painting practice is well-known for its distinctive blend of real and artificial landscapes and interiors. Dream-like images populated with objects loaded...

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings have always provoked the question of ‘where are we?’, with liquid boundaries between domestic and exterior domains, patchwork perspectives, and conspicuously constructed mises en scène . Throughout...

We are at a unique time in our life on these islands of Tasmania; forced to pause, reflect, revaluate, to consider, to reset, to look again at where we live...

In May 2020, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson completed an artist residency on the Glover Country estate in northern Tasmania. Staying in the 1830s house originally built and owned by English colonial painter...

On the surface, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings look like a game of dress-ups, theatrical sets designed with props and embellishments for a play about to begin. As we wait for the...

They unfortunately could never be postcards: Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s visions of the Australian landscape are picturesque, however the animating principle is a psychological undercurrent of melancholy, absence and displacement. A conversation,...

Beyond the Gate dwells on the impossibility of utopia. At first glance, the scenes in Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s paintings are bright and playful. They depict a kind of urban paradise with...

My current practice draws directly from my day-to-day experience within the Tasmanian suburban landscape. I seek out points of tension within these environments in an effort to deconstruct the idealised...