For over three decades, Elizabeth Pulie has been a prominent and active presence in the Sydney art community. Her work encompasses material forms including painting, fibre art, video, publishing and relational projects. Until 2002, art as decoration and commodity informed her painting project, while from 2002 until 2006 she emphasised a relational practice. Her work has incorporated media such as weaving, collage and embroidery, with recent series developing more traditional parameters of painting with an engagement with materiality and the activity of the support.

In 2022, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, presented a thirty year survey exhibition of Pulie’s work, Elizabeth Pulie: #117 (Survey), curated by James Gatt, that included a reader containing texts produced or co-produced by the artist since 2001. Institutional exhibitions include The National: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, curated by Blair French, Sydney (2017); Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism, curated by Max Delany, Annika Kristensen, Paola Balla, Julie Ewington, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2017); and Bauhaus Now!, curated by Ann Stephen, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne (2019).

Pulie was represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery from 2003 until its closure in 2024. She was co-director of the Sydney artist-run-initiative Front Room from 2002 – 2004 and was editor and publisher of Lives of the Artists from 2002 – 2005. Pulie lectures in Painting at the National Art School, Sydney. She achieved a PhD from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, in 2016.

Collections include: Art Gallery of Ballarat, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Melbourne Casino, Monash University Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, RACV, University of Sydney and Wesfarmers.

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Elizabeth Pulie

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Good fortune to a flame (curated by Mitch Cairns)
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