Samantha Stephenson
Samantha Stephenson
Lines in ink
47×137×50cm painted steel
$8,400
Samantha Stephenson
Hotel Earth
32×65×32cm painted steel
$2,400
Samantha Stephenson
The Cost (of love)
100×130×45 painted steel
$8,400
Samantha Stephenson
Child
72×35×25cm painted steel (wallpiece)
$2,600
Samantha Stephenson
Mother
68×38×18cm painted steel
(wallpiece)
$2,600
Samantha Stephenson
Mother and Child
see above for details
Samantha Stephenson
Kimono
76×68×36cm painted steel
$3,100
Samantha Stephenson
Mirror
55×38×23cm painted steel
$2,200
Born in Sydney, Samantha completed a Master of Fine Art in Sculpture at the National Art School Sydney in 2017 and currently lives and works in the Southern Highlands New South Wales.
She has exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea and been a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. She was awarded joint first place in the Bowral Sculpture Prize in 2019, and was winner of the WSU Peter Eichhorn Family Sculpture Award in 2021, and has been represented by Robin Gibson Gallery since 2016
Samantha’s practice aims to achieve a lightness and fluidity of touch whilst using a normally, rigid and heavy industrial material. Her practice develops in a poetic and intuitive use of material with a concentration on colour, scale, balance and volume which continues to drive her curiosity in the medium of steel. Samantha composes sensuous curved elements, that capture movement and lead the eye and body of the viewer around the work. As one moves around the work, spaces cast by shadow provoke a sense of mystery. Samantha’s interest in architecture leads her to create spaces within her work that ignite the imagination and allow us to consider our place within it.
She further engages with ideas of connection, relationships and time. ‘Immutable steel bends and twists, becomes malleable and transports us to a serpentine landscape of life, love, and the void. The multiplicity of the moment, a life lived and what is gained and lost along the way appear before us, reminding the viewer of the intangible presence of a world forever escaping them’ (excerpt from solo show, Bittersweet, 2023).
Samantha Stephenson
Education
2017 Master of Fine Art, National Art School, Sydney
2015 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) National Art School, Sydney
2014 Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) National Art School, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Bittersweet Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2022 Ephemeral Pleasures Art Farm Birches Bay, TAS (As, White Field, Collaborative Practice)
2021 Rose Garden Robin Gibson Gallery
2020 Caught in a second Robin Gibson Gallery
2019 The Invitation Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre (As, White Field, Collaborative Practice)
2018 Resonant Moments, Robin Gibson Gallery
2016 In Her Image, Robin Gibson Gallery
Group Exhibitions
since 2015 Group Shows at Robin Gibson Gallery including New Talent | Recent Graduates 2015 and the Annual Group Sculpture Shows
2024 Material Girls II, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2024 Robin Gibson Gallery Booth, Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
2023 Sculptures In the Garden, Mudgee, NSW
2023 ‘Into The Light’ Whitewall Art Prize, Whitewall Art Projects Gallery, NSW
2023 Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery
2023 Bowral Sculpture Prize Bowral Art Gallery, NSW
2021 Western Sydney University Sculpture Award & Exhibition NSW
2019 Bronze & Steel with Clement Meadmore & Simon Hodgson, Robin Gibson Gallery
2019 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Gordon, NSW
2019 Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, NSW
2019 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW
2018 Sculptures In the Garden, Mudgee, NSW
2018 Hillview Sculpture Biennial, Sutton Forest, NSW
2017 Postgraduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney
2017 Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
2017 The Studio at Santa Maria a Rignana, Italy
2017 The Paddock 3: Posted to New York, Aloft, Harlem NYC
2017 Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowral Art Gallery NSW
2015 Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
2015 Fundraising Event for The Centenary Institute Dominik Mersch Gallery
2014 Sculpture by the Sea Bondi
2014 Organica Library Square Sculpture Plinth, Lane Cove
2014 Sculpture at Sawmillers McMahons Point
Awards
2021 Winner of the Peter Eichhorn Family Sculpture Prize, Western Sydney University
Sculpture Award & Exhibition
2019 Joint Winner of Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowral and District Art Society
2019 Highly Commended in Bowral Sculpture Prize, Bowral and District Art Society
2014 Special Commendation, National Art School
2014 Robin Gibson Gallery, New Talent Exhibition, National Art School
2014 Clitheroe Foundation Emerging Sculptor Mentorship, Sculpture by the Sea
Residencies
2018 Hill End Artist in Residence, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW. Part of White Field, collaborative practice
2018 Muswellbrook Artist in Residence, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, NSW. Part of White Field, collaborative practice.
2017 The Studio at Santa Maria a Rignan, Artist Residency in Tuscany
Collections
Frensham Schools, Mittagong, NSW
Hillview Sculpture Park, NSW
Art Farm Birches Bay, TAS
St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW
Churchill Eco Dental Care, Sydney
Private Collections
Commissions
Mosman Art Gallery
Private Commissions
