Coris Evans

Coris Evans is a visual artist based in Byron Bay, Australia. Her practice explores memory and longing, using familiar objects and symbols to trace how personal history lingers in everyday life.

After losing her mother to cancer as a teenager, memory became something to return to - a place where time slowed, where tenderness endured, and where her mother still lived. Evans’ paintings and sculptural works draw on ordinary objects as emotional anchors: a well-worn mug kept beyond its use, an old mobile phone once filled with teenage secrets, the lingering scent of a parent’s hair product. These details become quiet carriers of feeling, transforming intimate memory into shared experience.

Working primarily with sustainable and recycled materials, Evans views care for the environment as inseparable from care for memory itself. Her process is slow and deliberate, guided by responsibility - to material, to narrative, and to the world her work inhabits. Through her practice, Evans invites viewers to reflect on what we hold onto, what we lose, and the objects we return to when we want to remember who we were.

2008 Bachelor of Fine Art (HONS) UNSW, Sydney
2011 Masters of Art Administration, UNSW, Sydney

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Unknown Lovers, Fuz, Byron Bay

2009 But where does she go now?, Paddington Station, London

2008 Dead Souls, Mori Gallery, Sydney

2007 Melt, ATVP Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney


Group Exhibitions

2025 Incognito Art Show, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney

2025 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne

2024 Incognito Art Show, Sydney2019 Celebrating a Moment, OS Art Expo, Ocean Shores

2019 Celebrating a Moment, OS Art Expo, Ocean Shores

2011 DVD Killed the Radio Star, ATVP Art Gallery, Sydney

2010 Una Historia Sin Mi Madre, Kensington Gardens, London

2010 Sacrifices Made, Commercial Street, London

2009 Apocalypse Now, Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2009 I Can See Your Skull, Gallery 77, Kings Cross, Sydney

2008 Stan and Maureen Duke Art Prize, Gold Coast Arts Centre

2008 Sculpturthon, ATVP Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney

2008 The Broken Clock Orchestra, Serial Space, Sydney

2008 Battle Feel, Mori Gallery, Sydney

2007 The M.E. Awards, The Linden Centre of Contemporary Art, QLD

2007 Hatched 07, National Graduate Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth



Art Related Employment

2012 Artist Assistant, Biennial of Sydney, Cockatoo Island

2011 Co-Director, A...