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                    Stephania Leigh

                    2021: Round 1

                    3D render of sculpture

                    Body Swivel

                    Stephania Leigh is a Jewish Australian artist working with painting, sculpture, installation and sound.

                    ​Stephania’s work redefines what it means to articulate the female form. These concepts in her works are reconfigured in her contemporary practice to uncover modes of resistance and change that renegotiate female objectification.  

                    Stephania also interrogates inherited memories and trauma through her Jewish cultural heritage as part of her practice.  

                    Stephania has achieved success as an emerging artist. In 2019 Leigh was invited to exhibit Ich Piersi, Moje Piersi (Their breasts, My Breasts) as part of FestivALT in Kraków. This artwork explored testimonials of women who experienced sexual violence during WWII.  

                    In 2020, Stephania exhibited at the public art space Assembly point in the exhibition BOOBOO to then exhibit in The Women’s Biennial at Westend Art space. In 2021, Stephania exhibited her sculpture Partial Figure (BBYG) at Bayside Gallery.  

                    Body Swivel

                    Body Swivel is an interactive sculptural installation which explores feminised architectural forms and spaces.  

                    The sculptural installation is placed in juxtaposition to the overwhelming amount of male sculptural spaces within the CBD.  

                    This installation comprises 3 plinths, one housing a green and orange sculpture, another housing a yellow sculpture and the last housing a large red sculpture. The installation has a surprise and delight connotation as the audience discovers that all the sculptures move, and they are invited to participate and create.

                    Each sculpture is inspired by the abstracted female form, creating a feminised space which interrogates ideas of design, form, abstraction and feminised architecture. These deconstructed non sexualised feminine things all move. The green and orange sculptures slide parallel across on the same plinth.

                    The yellow piece, housed on a separate spherical plinth can rotate, causing further abstraction of the form, and introducing a new movement type for the audience. The largest red piece can both slide and swivel. Together these four sculptures invite an audience to playfully create, observe perspective and act as a spatial collage. This installation creates a feminine structure with ever-changing composition that the participants can control, change, explore and photograph.

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