Kohl Tyler

Driven by an interest in ecology and navigating one's enmeshment within it during the contemporary age, Kohl Tyler often looks to the natural world, sciences, archives, and phenomena as starting points in her sculptural practice. Ideas of interconnectedness, life's ephemerality, and notions of ecological grief are explored through a material pursuit. She works predominantly in ceramic sculpture, and occasionally in watercolour 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 and in 2024 she won the Omnia Art Prize People's Choice award. She has presented solo exhibitions in Aotearoa and Australia including; All is Ephemeral, FELTspace, Adelaide, SA (2024),sub- super-, Quality, Melbourne, VIC (2024), and Moving Past the Sun, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Ceramics Now, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, VIC (2024) and Ceramics, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC (2024). 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, Aotearoa.

She is represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne.

Kohl is a specialist with Jarman Framing and assists in our Framing Department and Front of House.