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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.
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above   OVER SEAS  -  2018 / 2020
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
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above   CUT  -  exhibition at fortyfive downstairs  -  Melbourne  -  Australia  2015
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
 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
above   Red Gallery  -  Melbourne  -  Australia 2012
​here there elsewhere  -  90mm x 45mm x various lengths
​acrylic paint / ink / stencil on wood