Photo by Ivett Dodd
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson is a visual artist, educator and curator based in southern lutruwita/ Tasmania. Working across painting, sculpture, collage and installation, her practice examines the value and significance of identity, place and belonging, and ways cultural significance is constructed and exchanged, but also sometimes lost. Informed by an ongoing fascination with the intersections between natural and built environments, and slippages between histories, fictions and popular culture, her work seeks the human desire for connection and to make visible what is out of sight.
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), Split Vision (2021), Glover Country; Bett Gallery; 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 23/24 (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 Arts Centre, 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 been selected as a finalist in numerous Australian prizes including: Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2025); Tidal Art Award (2022, 2016); Womens 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). In 2018 Amber was the Emerging Artist Winner for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.
Amber has received numerous grants and awards for her practice, including an Australia Council ArtStart Grant and NAVA Australian Artist Grant, as well as funding through Arts Tasmania including Individuals and Groups Grants, Arts Bridge and a New work for new markets grant. She has received numerous studio residencies including Contemporary Art Tasmania, Arts 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 which was supported through the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.