Artist Bio

b. 1984

Stephanie Doddridge is an emerging contemporary artist working on Kaurna Country, South Australia. Stephanie takes an autobiographical approach to art making, reflecting on personal experiences and emotions and representing them through multidisciplinary practice. She is drawn to gardens and their produce, which have the potential to hold memories and a sense of nostalgia. Stephanie uses garden produce as materials to investigate symbiotic human – nature relationships, engaging with metaphors and notions of reciprocal care, through printmaking, ceramic, textile and sculptural production methods. 

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In 2021, Stephanie was selected to exhibit in Hatched: National Graduate Exhibition, at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. She has gained multiple awards from the University of South Australia and the Helpmann Academy. Stephanie presented her first solo exhibition in 2023, On Harvesting Dandelions, featuring the installation A Gardened Mind for 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. 

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Stephanie has recently completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (First Class Honours) at the South Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia through which she received an Award for Outstanding Achievement. She  is an artist in residence at the South Australian School of Art.