Stephanie Radok

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Stephanie Radok (born 1954) is an artist and writer based in Adelaide, South Australia, whose work is held in the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. [1] She worked as a general editor for Artlink and as an art critic for Artlink, Adelaide Review, and Art Monthly Australia and since 2024 has written reviews for The Saturday Paper [2] .

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Biography

Radok was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1954. [3] Radok studied a degree in Visual Arts, with a major in Printmaking, at the Canberra School of Art from 1982 to 1985. In 2002, she completed a Master of Arts in Visual Art at the South Australian School of Art.[ citation needed ]

Radok’s writing about art is linked to memoir and the everyday, lyrical passages and descriptions of artworks. Radok’s writing was first published in the art magazine Unreal City, [4] which she founded with eX de Medici in 1986 in Canberra. [5] She has written many catalogue essays including a notable one for Hossein Valamanesh titled Fingers of Memory. [6]

Art practice

Radok has held 19 solo exhibitions.[ citation needed ]

Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions from 1977, with an artwork in The Women’s Show held by the Women's Art Movement in Adelaide in 1977. [7] A major survey exhibition titled The Sublingual Museum was held at the Flinders University Museum of Art in 2011. [8]

Radok is the co-author of a book published in 2007 on leading contemporary Australian jeweller Julie Blyfield. [9] [10]

In 2012 Radok’s book An Opening: twelve love stories about art was published by Wakefield Press. It was long listed for the inaugural Stella Prize for writing by women, and was widely reviewed. [11]

"Radok shows how art reaches deeply into our lives in unexpected and ordinary ways: the tattered calendar cutting kept for decades and left behind in a photocopier, the postcard stuck to a laundry wall, or the persistent memory of something, seen perhaps only briefly, that alters one’s thinking utterly." Dr Michele McCrea, [12] Transnational Literature. [11]

Radok’s second memoir, Becoming a Bird, was published in March 2021. [13] In 2022 Radok wrote a piece of prose titled Under the Bed published in Heat.

Selected solo exhibitions

Collections

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References

  1. ↑ "Stephanie Radok". Framer Framed. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA". 14 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "Stephanie Radok · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "'Unreal City' gets magazine on the arts". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926–1995). 4 December 1986. p. 2. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  5. ↑ Grishin, Sasha (18 May 2015). "Urban Suburban art review: a view of Canberra that is out of date". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Hossein Valamanesh + Sherman Galleries Goodhope". www.shermangalleries.com.au. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Women's Art Movement (S.A.); Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide, S.A.), eds. (1978). The women's show, Adelaide, 1977. St. Peters, S.A: Experimental Art Foundation. ISBN   978-0-9596729-2-3.
  8. ↑ "Stephanie Radok, Author at The Nature of Cities". The Nature of Cities. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  9. ↑ Www.australi, Esigncentre com; Office: +61 2 9361 4555, esigncentre com T: Gallery: +61 2 8599 7999. "Julie Blyfield". Australian Design Centre. Retrieved 27 June 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ "Wakefield Press :: Arts, Architecture and Design :: Julie Blyfield". www.wakefieldpress.com.au. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  11. 1 2 "Transnational Literature – Current Issue: 5.2, May 2013". fhrc.flinders.edu.au. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  12. ↑ "Dr Michele McCrea". Flinders University. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  13. ↑ rodmclary (19 March 2021). "Becoming a Bird by Stephanie Radok". Queensland Reviewers Collective. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  14. ↑ "The Museum of Domestic Botany". Fabrik. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  15. ↑ Radok, Stephanie; Salmon, Fiona; Smith, Jason (2011). The sublingual museum: Stephanie Radok: Flinders University City Gallery 9 July – 21 August 2011. Flinders University Art Museum. Adelaide: Flinders University Art Museum. ISBN   978-0-9805208-4-2. OCLC   731733384.
  16. ↑ "National Gallery – Stephanie Radok". searchthecollection.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  17. ↑ "Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  18. ↑ "FUMA | Flinders University Museum of Art". Flinders University. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
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