Erin Coates: Transforming Bodies
Short Documentary produced for ART ON THE MOVE
Featuring the work of Erin Coates
Documentary Directed and Edited by Steven Alyian
I joined friend and artist Erin Coates on her residency at the WA Museum of the Great Southern in Albany, WA to document the progress on her sculptural works created in reflection of her personal history to the region. As part of the ART ON THE MOVE Artist in Residence program, this short documentary captures the process of Erin’s creative work and the value of artists staying and working in these remote locations and working with local stories and materials.
Transforming Bodies - Full Documentary
About Erin Coates / ‘Transforming Bodies’
Erin Coates presents a new body of sculptures in bronze, silicon, mohair, shell and other media; almost as talismans to her family’s maritime history, the whale bone yard off the coast of Albany and the so-called ghost specimens of extinct species she has researched. Much of her work across film, drawing and objects stems from her interests in marine biology, free-diving and encounters with ecological and human fragilities. ~ from Moore Contemporary, Nature Reserves catalogue, at Sydney Contemporary 2024
This work was creating during an Activating Collections Artist Residency with ART ON THE MOVE in partnership with the WA Museum and the Museum of the Great Southern. It was made on the lands of the Mengang peoples of Kinjarling Albany and the Noongar peoples of Boorloo Perth.
Erin lives and works on Noongar boodjar. She recognises the continuing connection Aboriginal people have to land, waters, culture and the arts, and pays her respects to Elders and ancestors.
