Ewen Coates holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (1999) and a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art, from Deakin University, Warrnambool (1985). He has held a number of solo exhibitions including Hatchlings, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne (2011); Post Velcro, Deakin University Art Gallery, Victoria (2010); and Overground, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery and Warrnambool Art Gallery (2007). Coates has participated in group exhibitions at a number of important venues including presenting his work at Art Stage Singapore 2013 and the Melbourne Art Fair 2012 both with Anna Pappas Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Coates has been a finalist in the Melbourne Sculpture Prize, Mt Buller Sculpture Award, McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize and the Lorne Sculpture Festival. His works are held in various public gallery collections in Australia including Heide Museum of Modern Art, Werribee Park Sculpture Walk and the Deakin University Collection as well as in private collections in Australia, United States and United Kingdom.
