Steph Fuller
Steph Fuller is a visual artist working on unceded Kaurna Land in South Australia.
Fuller's practice oscillates between longing and loss. Her work is primarily image-based, favouring dark pensive tones and intentional slippage between the macro and micro.
Her post-illness work sees a greater interest in bringing the image into sculptural contexts and working with found objects. A new scarcity of capacity brings restraint to her practice, but fuels a desire to occupy more space than before.
Born 1992
Adelaide, South Australia
Education
2014 Master of Visual Art, UniSA
2012 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography), UniSA
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Portraits of the Elderly, Yungondi Building, UniSA
2019 Proximal Orbit, praxis ARTSPACE
2018 Deep Space, FELTspace
2017 Internal Botany, Flinders Medical Centre
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 [upcoming]
2021 Cosmic Analogues, Dirty Dozen, VIC
2021 approaching midnight, FELTspace
2020 S P A C E S, Adelaide Town Hall
2019 Already Home, Adelaide City Library
2018 Discontented Nature, Carclew
2018 Internal Botany, praxis ARTSPACE
2013 Adorned, Ladybeads
The Tunnels, The Adina Hotel
Feathers, FORMAT
2012 PULP, These Walls Don’t Lie Gallery
A4 by Four by Four, The Reading Room
2011 Vintage, Red Poles
Residencies
2017 SALA Artist in Residence at Flinders Medical Centre supported by Arts in Health at FMC
Awards
2023 Finalist / Commendation - Prospect Portrait Prize
2023 Winner - Dawn Slade-Faull Award
2023 Finalist - Hospital Research Foundation Creative Health Art Prize
2023 Category Winner - Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize (Photography)
2022 Shortlisted - Australian Photobook Awards (Open Pre-Press Digital Category) with The Edge of The Earth(unpublished)
2021 Finalist - National Photographic Portrait Prize - Living Memory
2019 Finalist - Olive Cotton Award
Winner - Adelaide Fringe / BankSA Best Visual Art Award
Winner - Fringe Weekly Award
Finalist - West Torrens Art Prize
2018 Winner - Fringe Weekly Award
Finalist – Emma Hack Art Prize
2017 Finalist – SALA - The City Rural Emerging Artist Award
2016 Finalist – Emma Hack Art Prize
2015 Finalist – One Day for Sight
2012 Semifinalist – Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Mentorships
2017 Guildhouse LimberUP! Mentorship with Roy Ananda
Talks
2019 SALA Festival PechaKucha Night
2018 A Way of Seeing is a Way of Not Seeing - joint paper, ASMIRT, Canberra
Publication
2021 Living Memory - National Photographic Portrait Prize, Karen Quinlan