Stephanie HAYGARTH

Artist Statement

Stephanie Haygarth is a recent honours graduate of the Australian National University’s School of Art. Her work uses both representation and abstraction in meditative paintings about the precarious state of existence and the fascinations of the natural world. Using sources such as photographs, drawings and memories of patterns in light, plumage, sand, cloud or sea, her work explores qualities that tell of the fleetingness of things. Curriculum vitae In 2007, Stephanie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with honours in painting, from the Australian National University (ANU). As a student, she participated in a number of exhibitions both inside and outside the university and was a finalist in the ANU Drawing Prize every year of her studies. Professional exhibitions 2008 February: Ecoforum 2008 exhibition, Conrad Jupiters, Gold Coast, Qld March: finalist, Weereewa Festival Works on Paper Prize exhibition, Bungendore, NSW May–June: Structure (with Sally Blake and Mog Bremner), Foyer Gallery, ANU June–July: finalist, 2008 M16 Drawing Prize exhibition, Canberra August: Colour and Sound (group show), M16, Canberra October: finalist, 2008 John Leslie Art Prize exhibition, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Vic October: finalist, Tasart 2008 (Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, Tas) and Patron's Prize 2009 February: Making Tracks (group show), ANCA Gallery and Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant March: finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW, and judge’s commendation Forthcoming exhibitions 2009 September: Shadows (working title) (with Nikki Main), ANU Foyer Gallery Collections Molonglo Collection KPMG Collection Publications Ecoforum: An Exhibition of Visual Art (catalogue), Field Studies Environment Studio, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra, 2008. 2008 John Leslie Art Prize (catalogue), Gippsland Regional Gallery, 2008. 2009 Calleen Art Award (catalogue), Cowra Regional Gallery, 2009. Reviews Reid, John, ‘Structure: Sally Blake, Mog Bremner, Stephanie Haygarth’, Textile Fibre Forum, no 92, 2008, pp 26–27. Kerry-Anne Cousins, ‘Ready to push out boundaries’, Canberra Times, 6 March 2009.

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