Artist Bio

b. 1984

Stephanie Doddridge is an emerging contemporary artist working on Kaurna Country, South Australia. Stephanie is drawn to gardens and their produce, as a way to understand human-nature ecologies, investigate symbiotic relationships and notions of reciprocal care. She engages with garden-derived materials through printmaking and textile production methods, as quiet activism in the face of concurrent crises and undertakes community giving as an element within her sculptures and installations.

In 2021, Stephanie was selected to exhibit in Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition, at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Stephanie completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (First Class Honours) at the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia in 2022, which she received an Award for Outstanding Achievement.  She has gained multiple awards from the University of South Australia and the Helpmann Academy including the The Hill Smith Art Advisory Award. Stephanie presented her first solo exhibition in 2023, On Harvesting Dandelions, featuring the installation A Gardened Mind, which won the City Rural Emerging Artist Award for SALA Festival. In 2024 she was selected to undertake the Guildhouse Collections Project with Flinders University Museum of Art. 

Stephanie undertook the Project Curator role for the Helpmann Academy 2025 Graduate Exhibition in SASA Gallery, under the mentorship of Anna Zagala (Samstag Museum of Art), and is currently undertaking the ACE Studios 2025-26 Residency at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental.