Artist. Sculptor. Maker extraordinaire.
Stephanie is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, ceramics, and textiles. Her studio practice is based in Edmonton, Alberta, where she also offers workshops and teaches with local art organizations.
Muttart Public Artwork
Muttart Conservatory LRT Station Public Art
Created in consultation with community members, this project captured floral motifs from the neighbourhood’s imagination and turned them into larger-than-life whimsical blooms adorning the roof of the station shelters.
Edmonton, AB
2021
Sweetie
“Smile, Sweetie”
As a woman who works as a sculpture technician, my competence and skills are constantly called into question on the basis of gender norms: “You look too young to be in charge here”; “I’m sorry, Sweetie, but are you qualified to fix this equipment?”. I want my body to be acknowledged and respected for its strength and what it is capable of doing. I want to smash the notions of that a woman has to dress or act a certain way - what she chooses to wear should not detract from her ability to do her job.
Edmonton, AB
2020
Against the Patriarchy: Tools for the Revolution
Smart Warehouse Retrofit
Through this body of work, I am attempting to dismantle the Master’s house without the use of the Master’s tools. I am digging deep to find the areas within myself that uphold systematic herteronormative white male privilege. While using traditionally female dominated arenas of life (domesticity as a revolutionary act), I am reclaiming craft as a viable voice of dissent. In this, I grapple with my Modernist artistic upbringing and its agenda to negate craft and ornament. This body of work is a response to this patriarchal world and its histories, seen through the lens of Craftivism, which aims to create wider conversations about uncomfortable social issues.
Edmonton, AB
2018