Australian artist STEPH BOLT splits her time between studios on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne & Skopelos Island in Greece.
For STEPH travel & art are totally intertwined, feeding off each other. Her work traverses many mediums including sculpture, printmaking & photography. Predominantly her work is about people in their local environment. Her subject matter is deliberately non heroic.
She observes, records & documents daily life with her camera. STEPH started exploring the minimalist constructed object whilst completing her Master of Fine Art at RMIT in Melbourne. Focusing on the space created around & in-between objects, she de-contextualises complex photographic images & lets a figure stand alone in blank space.
She has received 2 Australia Council for the Arts Grants, exhibits internationally & has completed residencies in Australia, Europe & Asia. Her work is held in public & private collections throughout the world.
Always working in series she often has several different projects unfolding simultaneously. In a recent series of works BOLT has made free standing photographic blocks looking at the commonality of symbols & colours found on ferry boats on the opposite ends the world.
Photography, travel & colour are her obsessions.
above OVER SEAS - 2018 / 2020
photographs printed on archival paper - mounted on wood blocks
16cm x 16cm x 2.3cm - edition of 10
photographs printed on archival paper - mounted on wood blocks
16cm x 16cm x 2.3cm - edition of 10
above CUT - exhibition at fortyfive downstairs - Melbourne - Australia 2015
acrylic sheet + MDF sculptures - 240cm x 120cm
acrylic sheet + MDF sculptures - 240cm x 120cm
above CUT - exhibition at fortyfive downstairs - Melbourne - Australia 2015
photographic print on cotton paper - 23cm x 23cm - edition of 10
photographic print on cotton paper - 23cm x 23cm - edition of 10
above SUMMER on SKOPELOS - GREECE - 2015
relief prints from plywood - 300gsm paper - 22cm x 22cm
- there are up to 4 states of each print
relief prints from plywood - 300gsm paper - 22cm x 22cm
- there are up to 4 states of each print
above Tropical Lab 4 - Institute of Contemporary Art - Singapore - 2010
above Sardam Gallery - Siemani - Kurdistan 2011
above Ne Na Contemporary Art Space - Chiang Mai - Thailand 2012
above The Art Vault - Mildura - Australia 2012
digital ptints on plywood - 200mm x 200mm
digital ptints on plywood - 200mm x 200mm
above Red Gallery - Melbourne - Australia 2012
here there elsewhere - 90mm x 45mm x various lengths
acrylic paint / ink / stencil on wood
here there elsewhere - 90mm x 45mm x various lengths
acrylic paint / ink / stencil on wood