Gemma Pullar is an emerging artist based in Cockatoo, Australia. Her practice centres on emotional abstraction, combining minimal, figurative, and narrative elements to explore themes of containment, growth, and transformation.
Working across painting, video, and installation, Pullar’s work sits between the familiar and the surreal. She uses subtle shifts in form, scale, and context to evoke underlying emotional states and suggest open-ended narratives.
Domestic motifs recur as symbolic forms within her practice, reflecting ideas of restriction, autonomy, and the impulse to move beyond imposed boundaries. Her work engages with the indeterminate nature of perception and memory, inviting viewers to question what is seen, overlooked, or imagined.
Pullar completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Monash University and also studied at Chisholm Institute of TAFE in Melbourne
Artist CV
Gemma Pullar
EDUCATION
Master of Teaching (Primary and Secondary), Monash University, Melbourne — 2016
Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash University, Melbourne — 2012
Diploma of Visual Arts, Chisholm Institute of TAFE, Melbourne — 2004
Certificate in Photography, RMIT, Melbourne — 2002
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — The Shape of Release, PAVED, Laughing Fox Café, Emerald
2011 — Wipe Your Tapes with Lightning, Runt Space, Monash University
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 — Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2025 — Small Works Exhibition, FortyFive Downstairs, Melbourne
2025 — 50 Squared, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2025 — Emerald Arts Society Annual Art Exhibition, Emerald
2012 — Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne
2011 — Bachelor of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, Caulfield, Melbourne
2007 — Combing Imaginations, Cardinia Cultural Centre, Pakenham