Jewellery & Object Artist, Image Maker
My name is Stephanie. I was born in Malaysia and I live in Australia. I am a jewellery and object artist, an image maker, an illustrator, a collector of discarded things, and a mushroom-fancier. I am an interdisciplinary artist, living and working on unceded lands of the Woi-wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nation.
As an emerging artist I have taken part in a number of group shows, including Rendering: Jewellery and Objects (Southbank, Melbourne, 2022), The Cure (Preston, 2021) and Collective Origins (Webb Gallery Brisbane, 2017). In 2022 I completed a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University, and took home the Lowensteins Art & Community prize for my graduating body of work. My home and studio practice are based in Footscray; the local history and landscape (both urban and natural) informs my work.
Hello there, 2021.
Artist Statement
As an artist my goal is to create works that are transcendental and immanent; my art is at both times monumental and micro. In my expanded art and jewellery practice I draw on the rich palette of shapes and textures in surrounding landscapes, discarded objects and reclaimed materials, transforming them with colour and scale to create work that blurs the lines between ‘wearable’ and ‘unwearable’.
I believe in sustainable practices, art in everyday life, slow fashion, and trying to use what you already have. I aim to probe the role of jewellery and objects in attachment, suffering, identity, and relationships. My enquiries emerge from my ongoing reckonings with dualistic tensions and questions of constructions of identity in post-colonial Australia.
My personal values relating to environmentalism and deep ecology push me to explore new methods of creating using my ever-growing collection of found and recycled material. I utilize collecting, alteration, and re-contextualisation to evoke and inscribe new narratives. I juxtapose high and low, pop and grit, old and new, in my journey to create new worlds within my art.
Some of my influences include Karl Fritsch, Otto Kunzli, Louise Zhang, Pip n Pop, Helen Britton, Dan Lam, Ari Folman, Nixi Killick, and Suyu Chen.
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Email: stephanierachaeljewellery@gmail.com
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