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. 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. 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 is currently undertaking the Project Curator role for the Helpmann Academy 2025 Graduate Exhibition in SASA Gallery, under the mentorship of Anna Zavala (Samstag Museum of Art), and is a studio member and social media volunteer at Collective Haunt ARI.