Stevie Fieldsend’s sculptures are powerful personal and universal reflections on time and the passage of life. Her works seeks to detail an emotional state – more a feeling or sensation/bodily memory of a past event. Fieldsend is interested in how to convey emotional realities about longing, grief and death. Central to these perceptions are the notions of the lived body and transference.
Read MoreIn working with materials that embody the process of transmutation such as molten glass, steel and charred wood, a type of performance takes place close to the furnace, and inside her body. A ritual that leaves more than a trace, it leaves a place of where there is a possibility of transformation. Her most recent work, solve et coagula, slumps thick- shaped biomorphic molten glass over and inside a series of dark, truncated vertical forms. The hot glass itself assumes and picks up an imprint memory of the wood grain, is separated, and then when cooled is laid back down over the standing forms.
Stevie Fieldsend studied glass at Sydney College of the Arts and The Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre in Adelaide and from these two influences has worked, in both design and production as well as installation/sculpture. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. She has taught in the glass department at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney where she is also currently undertaking post-graduate studies.
In 2012 Stevie was the winner of the Sculpture in the Vineyards Prize. In 2013 she was the winner of the Rookwood Necropolis Sculpture Award. In 2013, she was also a finalist in the Blake Prize and the Willoughby Sculpture Prize.
Text courtesy Artereal Gallery.
