Stephanie Eather Australia, b. 1987

Lives and works BETWEEN Sydney AND MELBOURNE

Stephanie Eather (b. 1987 Melbourne, Australia) is an artist whose gestural paintings and drawings explore the familiar relationship between memory and lived experience. Moving between abstraction and recollection, her work emerges through a process of memorising and reimagining places, translating the physical and emotional traces of landscape into expressive fields of colour and movement. Working with oil paint and recycled merino wool, Eather brings the material world into direct conversation with her practice, creating works that hold the shifting impressions of places encountered and experiences carried.

Deeply informed by her time spent in regional Australia, Eather journeyed through North East Victoria, regional New South Wales and Queensland, experiences which shaped her ongoing investigation into landscape as both a physical environment and an interior, psychological space. Through residencies on rural properties and an extended period travelling between woolsheds, she developed a distinctive material approach, drawing on the sensory qualities of landscape to consider how experience is retained and reconstructed. Currently, she explores the domestic space. Eather asks how memory inhabits the spaces we leave behind, and whether our sense of place resides in the landscape itself or in the body that remembers it.