Stuart Ringholt’s practice encompasses performance, sculpture, video and writing. Throughout his deployment of these forms there is a characteristic sense of adjusted perspective, revealing new views through simple re-workings of familiar images. Common to his framed collages, small-scale sculptures and performative workshops, Ringholt’s processes involve the alteration of existing images, objects and states. These changes are not radical or extreme, but simple movements whose modesty belie the significant shift in meaning they assert. Ringholt’s ‘re-works’ appear absurd, often comical and always surprising.
Read MoreRingholt’s recent solo exhibitions include Vitrines, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 2010; Video Works, Club Laundromat, New York, 2009; Low Sculpture, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2008; Gallery Room, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, 2008. His work was included in Before and After Science, 2010 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia; Experimenta: Utopia Now, International Biennial of New Media Art, The Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2010; Too Much of Me: 7 Paths Through the Absurd (With Detour), Monash University Museum of Art, 2009; Revolutions: Forms that Turn, 16th Biennale of Sydney, 2008; Lost & Found: An Archeology of the Present, and New05, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne. In 2009 Ringholt participated in the International Studio & Curatorial Program residency in New York City. His work will feature in the forthcoming Singapore Biennale, 2011.
