VCA ART 2022

Stephanie Hicks

Master of Contemporary Art


Embracing ways of thinking/knowing and making that are tentacular and open-ended, my practice explores the potential for new ways of being and becoming-with that are both generous and generative. It is informed by an understanding of ecological symbiosis and entangled with questions of connection, care and responsibility, and a deep love of the natural world.


Methodologies of collage and assemblage are intrinsic, both for their enduring relationship to feminist practice, and the space they hold for uncertainty, intuition and happenstance. Making kin with materials also speaks to the interdependence and agency of more-than human beings, including the very stuff of our world, in our complex and ongoing stories.

Website

stephaniehicks.com.au

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Enquiries

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A small assemblage comprised of a clear plastic egg-shaped dome on top of a slightly larger pink plastic lid on top of a tripod made from three gumnuts.
Stephanie Hicks, Oddkin, found plastic, flower bud caps and modelling clay, 5 x 5 x 12 cm, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong.
A coloured pencil and crayon drawing on paper featuring textured, overlapping organic shapes in bright colours including purple, pink, yellow, green and blue.
Stephanie Hicks, Shimmer No 3, coloured pencil and crayon on paper, 93 x 127 cm, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong.
A cropped close-up of a drawing on paper featuring textured, overlapping organic shapes in pink, purple, brown and orange.
Stephanie Hicks, Shimmer No 2 (detail), coloured pencil and crayon on paper, 93 x 127 cm, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong.
A large room in which a series of drawings line the left hand wall. In the middle of the space are five white pedestal stands of varying heights supporting five small assemblages. To the right, a series of loosely knitted tubes in brown craft paper, pink and fluorescent yellow twine are suspended from the roof.
Stephanie Hicks, installation view, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong.
A room in which a series of loosely knitted tubes in brown, pink and fluorescent yellow are suspended from the roof. A cropped drawing sits to the right of the frame.
Stephanie Hicks, A Worlding Practice, twisted paper rope, builders’ twine, metallic thread, dimensions variable, 2022. Documentation by Simon Strong.
A pair of upturned wooden stools are taped together to create a loom. A rope of twisted brown craft paper is knitted through the legs of the stools and drapes in coils to the floor. In the background is an out of focus drawing on paper in fluorescent colours.
Stephanie Hicks, Flow No 2 (detail), paper rope, wooden stools, masking tape and stick, dimensions variable, 2022. Documentation by Astrid Mulder.
. A gallery space featuring two large knitted forms of twisted brown craft paper coiling across the floor. One is attached to a loom made from wooden stools. In the back ground is a series of drawings on paper in bright colours.
Stephanie Hicks, The Indeterminacy of Encounter (installation view), 2022. Documentation by Astrid Mulder.
An assemblage in which a dressmakers pin threaded with soft pink beads pokes out the top of a small peach coloured ball. The ball sits atop the stem of a cluster of native seedpods which has been wrapped in bright yellow tape.
Stephanie Hicks, Oddkin, seedpods, floristry tape, pin and beads, 7 x 4 x 8cm, 2022.

Master of Contemporary Art

Astrid Mulder
Deven Marriner
Fiona Martin
Jonathon Harris
Kate Lewis
Kia Zand
Layla Vardo
Linda Studena
Marina Rolfe
Michelle Tonkin
Nicholas Millen
Sally Vivian
Sorcha Mackenzie
Soyoun Kim
Stephanie Hicks
Zahraa Tariq Alkahtani

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the people of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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