Hari Koutlakis, CreateSA
Image: Hari Koutlakis, CreateSA ‘A Place to Create’ State Cultural Policy launch, image courtesy CreateSA.
Hari Koutlakis
Live painting for the CreateSA State Cultural Policy A Place to Create launch.
Artist Biography:
Focusing in movement based abstract murals, paintings, and installations. Hari’s recognisable pattern work is formed by a series of process based discoveries of forms which are forever growing and responding to the space. Approaching the work with no preconceived ideas allows for the work to evolve in an organic manner.
Hari’s Recent exhibitions include a solo show at GoodBank Gallery McLaren Vale 2023, Staff Only, West Croydon 2024 and Backwoods Gallery Collingwood 2024. Over the past few years Hari has also had the opportunity to work interstate to paint a big wall for one the Australia’s longest running mural festival Darwin Street Art Festival. Hari has also had the opportunity to make sculptural works with lighting projections for two of Australia’s biggest music festivals Pitch music and arts festival (Vic) and Strawberry Fields (NSW)
Aswell as exhibiting his own work Hari has been working with council, communities and Karuna land art collective The Bait Fridge to help facilitate art projects for the almost a decade.
Guildhouse Professional Services
Guildhouse Professional Services (GPS) is a South Australian leading public art consultancy, delivering end-to-end services for major public and commercial projects.
Established as Guildhouse’s social enterprise, GPS combines contemporary public art expertise with the governance strength of Guildhouse, the state’s peak visual arts body with over 60 years’ experience and membership base of over 1,200 artists, designers and craft practitioners.