Stephanie Doddridge
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Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition: ACE Open
January 29, 2021
The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition opens at ACE Open on the 29th January 2021, featuring three artworks from my final body of work from my Bachelor of Contemporary Art degree.
Data Visualisation
December 9, 2020
I'm currently undertaking a Vacation Research Scholarship position at the University of South Australia. The research involves the representation of data using craft materials and processes to create objects by hand in response to issues of human impact on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Bloom
December 4, 2020
UniSA Bachelor of Contemporary Art Graduate Exhibition, Bloom, opened via Zoom. The exhibition can be viewed online at:
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I was fortunate enough to receive the Harry P. Gill Memorial Medal for my final body of work.
SALA 2020, A quarter turn around the sun
July 28, 2020
A quarter turn around the sun is a showcase of new student artwork from UniSA’s Bachelor of Contemporary Art program. Sculptural, video, photography and ceramic works explore themes of transmission, transience, and absence, teasing out the social and environmental implications of a new topography.
During a strange and unprecedented period of learning, characterised by moral uncertainty, a reliance on new technology, and isolation in all its forms, students stepped outside of their institutional boundaries and explored new ways of making and creating.
These new and intriguing works by a suite of South Australia’s emerging artists are the culmination of a four month period of isolation. They posit alternative ways of living and connecting with the landscape around us, and with each other.
SASA Gallery
Kaurna Building, City West Campus
Monday July 27 - Friday August 21
Monday - Wednesday: By appointment only
Thursday - Friday: 11am - 4pm
Cover Image: Introspection by Lucinda Zola (2020). Video still.
https://www.unisa.edu.au/Calendar/a-quarter-turn-around-the-sun/
Installation Art
August 25, 2019
Approaching assessment for the installation art elective I'm beginning to consider how all four elements of the project are going to come together in the space I've been allocated. Each element responds to the overall theme of 'hard and soft'. I had to make a right angle, a stack, something that changes and something that is three times as big as the biggest element. I think all of them elements have a similar aesthetic, so they work together well. I'm trying to mirror certain shapes and angles between the elements so that they connect and take the eye on a journey. I am yet to finalize the element that changes, but I think it needs to have some bulk to it to balance out the installation. There is also potential to spread the elements out more.
Something That Changes
August 20, 2019
This experiment is an attempt to respond to the brief 'something that changes' as one of four elements in the first installation art elective assessment. I wanted to play with the idea of something changing on its own as it sits in the space. I thought the idea of clay would be good as it changes states through production from soft to hard, and that responds to the overall brief of 'hard and soft.' This experiment was an attempt at reversing that change, making it go from hard to soft by using a bowl that hasn't been fired and filling it with water so it melts away. I was hoping that the bottom of the bowl would dissolve into the sand leaving a ring of terracotta sitting on top, however the bottom of the bowl only cracked.
Wheel Throwing Progression
August 18, 2019
Most mornings I try to take time to make a mug of coffee and walk around my garden inspecting the new changes and growth as a little morning self-care ritual. I'm currently practising wheel throwing vessels in response to the project brief 'Liquid to Lips' and I'm thinking about the idea of self-care rituals as the basis for my project. Not only do I consider my morning ritual as an act of self-care but the actual technique of wheel throwing is also such a tactile, repetitive and therapeutic motion.
I found this article published by the Guardian which talks about pottery as a way of disconnecting from our busy lives. I love the title "Throws of Passion." I feel the process of throwing is so grounding. I can draw so many similarities between the rituals of gardening, raising food crops and enjoying the literal fruits of my labour and the act of building a vessel on the wheel, caring for it through every step of production and finally enjoying using it as drinking vessel for that morning cuppa. Both rituals involve the element of care, time and slow production which separate them from the fast paced contemporary world.