About

Alongside this emotional narrative, Evans is committed to working with sustainable and recycled materials, viewing care for the environment as an extension of care for memory itself. Her practice is slow and deliberate, grounded in responsibility - to the materials she uses, the stories she tells, and the world those stories exist within.

As an artist working today, Evans believes creativity and accountability are inseparable. Through her work, she invites viewers to reflect on what we keep, what we lose, and the objects we return to when we want to remember who we were.

“The materials I choose are never neutral. They carry history, intention, and care - much like the memories I’m trying to hold onto.”

Coris Evans is a visual artist based on Bundjalung Country in Byron Bay, Australia. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2008 and later pursued a Master’s in Art Administration, following her work as a Research Assistant to an internationally respected curator and Artistic Director of London’s Serpentine Galleries.

Evans’ work sits at the intersection of memory, loss, and longing. After losing her mother to cancer as a teenager, the past became something to hold onto - a place where time slowed, where life felt gentler, and where her mother still lived. Her paintings trace this instinct to return, using familiar, often ordinary objects as emotional touchstones: a KFC Looney Tunes mug kept long past its use, a Nokia phone that once held teenage secrets, the unmistakable scent of her father’s hair product lingering in memory. These objects become quiet carriers of feeling, transforming personal history into shared experience.