She mixes abstraction and representation, depicting domestic interiors - a bathroom in “Good Morning Baltimore,” for example - at the center of pieces that devolve into line, color and texture. The motifs of her combine-paintings, which often incorporate 3-D sticks made of clay, continue onto (and sometimes into) the adjacent walls. Of the three, only Miller literally carries her art outside the frame. One of his simple drawings, 1960’s “Study for Eleven Oils,” is included in “Beyond the Frame: Spatial Composition After Lucio Fontana.” But the Contemporary Wing show consists primarily of work by young artists Micheal Cor, Toym Imao and Ali Miller (along with musical compositions by Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis). Among them was Lucio Fontana, an Italian-Argentine painter and theorist who began puncturing and slashing his canvases in the 1940s. ( term “creative destruction” is most often associated with economics, but it could just as easily be applied to radical 20th-century visual artists. She has studied exercise science at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, NSW, Australia.
So when I saw mum tearing up, it made me tear up. Whenever I think about me swimming and my race and winning my first gold medal, I never ever thought about what happened to mum on the spectator side of things. There's footage of my mum's reaction to me winning my first gold medal in London. And seeing them in a documentary setting that was made so well was so emotional. The viewer will see and hear things about me for the first time, but I did too. Seeing things for the first time was an out of body experience. It makes me proud because I've seen it change so dramatically. I've seen the evolution to what it has become to the point where there's a Netflix documentary and that is something else. When I see a piece of work like this one, and especially something that a brand like Netflix is taking up, I think back to when I was nine or 10 years old and not knowing that Para sport even existed. "The first time I watched it, I was sitting there thinking these are just nine of thousands and thousands of athletes that have incredible stories. She featured in the 2020 documentary film 'Rising Phoenix', which focused on the Paralympic Games. It's really special to be a Paralympian, I don't think I can really put into words how much the Paralympic movement has completely changed my life." (,, ) Walking away from the pool and looking behind me one last time, I think that's when it really hit me. So, I decided to push through to Commonwealth Games. But I felt like I was missing out on saying goodbye to what I consider to be half of my other team. "I got to spend a lot of time with my Paralympic friends in Tokyo and say goodbye to everyone there and take that all in. She retired from competition following the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Her instructors predicted it would take her a year to learn to swim in a straight line. While not satisfied, it only fuels the fire for Tokyo 2020.Ĭole, whose right leg was amputated as a result of cancer at the age of two, excelled at swimming right from the start.Įight weeks after the amputation, Cole’s mother took her swimming as part of the rehabilitation process. She came away with a silver in the 100m backstroke and bronze in the 400m freestyle in her S9 class. She returned to the London pool for the 2019 World Championships. In all, she won medals in six of her events, sharing the honour as Australia's top medallist in Rio. A further bronze medal in the 50m freestyle S9 and a silver in the 4 x 100m medley relay 34 points sealed an incredible competition for the Melbourne-born athlete.įor her efforts, Cole received Swimming Australia’s Golden Moment Award in 2015.Īt Rio 2016, Cole successfully defended her 100m backstroke title and was part of the relay team that defended their 4x100m freestyle relay 34 points crown. Her 100m backstroke title also came with a world record. She left Glasgow, Great Britain, with three gold medals in the 100m backstroke S9, 100m freestyle S9 and 4 x 100m freestyle relay 34 points. The Australian faced a tough decision to retire after the London 2012 Paralympic Games, where she stole the thunder with four gold medals.Ī reconstructive surgery on her shoulder in 2013 would have seen her out of the pool indefinitely, but Cole remained undeterred and was more determined to pursue her passion for swimming.Īfter recovering from the operation, Cole returned to training and in 2015 went on to win her first world titles. Just as the Netflix documentary 'Rising Phoenix' depicts, Ellie Cole does not give up.
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