Amber Koroluk-Stephenson: Mother's Tongue

26 June - 18 July 2026

Overview

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, popular cultural narratives and the natural environment to interrogate the artist's own position as woman artist of recent migrant ancestry and the complexities of identity, place and belonging in settler-colonial Australia.

Amber Koroluk-Stephenson works across painting, collage, sculpture and installation to explore questions of identity, place, and belonging. Her practice considers how cultural meaning is created, shared, and at times, lost. Drawing on an ongoing interest in the intersections between natural and built environments - as well as the blurring of histories, fictions, and popular culture - her work reflects a deeply human desire for connection. Through this, she aims to reveal what often remains unseen or overlooked.

Since graduating from the Tasmanian School of Art with a BFA (Honours) in 2010, Amber has held numerous solo and group exhibitions. Recent solo exhibitions include: Homing Instincts (2025), Woollahra Gallery; Interior Topographies (2024), Bett Gallery; A Hopeful Mirage (2022), Bett Gallery; Split Vision (2021), Glover Country; Breaking Horizons (2020), Bett Gallery, Middleground (2018), Bett Gallery; Shadows on the Wall (2017), Anna Pappas Gallery; and Homeland (2017), Devonport Regional Gallery.

Amber has participated in numerous group exhibitions including: Form Over Fallacy (2025), Egg & Dart; When the Fog Clears (2025), Ten Days on the Island; Discovery Collection (2024-2025), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery; Something in the Exchange (2025), Richmond Gaol, Always Tomorrow (2023), Moonah Arts Centre; Figment (2023), Lady Franklin Gallery, Relationships and Limitations (2022), RANT Arts, Settings for Uncertainty (2022), Rosny Farm, Dream Sequence (2020), Kings; Suburbia (2018), Cement Fondu, Wild: flora and fauna in Australian art (2018) Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Glover in Arcadia (2017) Rosny Barn; and Ken Urban (2015) Contemporary Art Tasmania.

Her work has been included in national art prizes, including being a finalist in the Fisher's Ghost Art Award (2025), Tidal Art Award (2022, 2016), Women's Art Prize Tasmania (2022, 2019), Bruny Island Art Prize (2018), Albany Art Prize (2018, 2016), The Churchie National Emerging Artist Prize (2017), Portia Geach Memorial Award (2016), Redlands Art Award (2016), and Glover Prize (2013). Notably, she was the Emerging Artist Winner of the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize in 2018.

Amber has received numerous grants and awards to support her practice, including an Australia Council ArtStart Grant, a NAVA Australian Artist Grant, and funding from Arts Tasmania, including Individuals and Groups Grants and Arts Bridge. She has undertaken residencies including Contemporary Art Tasmania, Glover Country, Poatina Arts Centre, and Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. In 2025, Amber completed her Master of Fine Arts (Research) at UNSW Art, Design and Architecture, supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.

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