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Stephanie Radok is an artist and writer[1] based in Adelaide, South Australia. She worked as a general editor for Artlink for many years and as an art critic for Artlink, Adelaide Review, Art Monthly Australia and other publications.

Background

Stephanie Radok was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1954.[2] Radok studied a degree in Visual Arts, with a major in Printmaking, at the Canberra School of Art from 1982 to 1985. This was followed in 2002 by completion of a Master of Arts in Visual Art from the South Australian School of Art.

Writing

Radok’s writing about art is linked to memoir and the everyday, lyrical passages and descriptions of artworks.

Radok’s writing about art is linked to memoir and the everyday, lyrical passages and descriptions of artworks that she has seen and remembered over thirty years of writing in Australia as an art critic.

Radok’s writing was first published in the art magazine Unreal City[3], which she founded with eX de Medici in 1986 in Canberra.[4] She has written many catalogue essays including a notable one for Hossein Valamanesh titled Fingers of Memory.[5]

Radok has written reviews and articles for Artlink, Adelaide Review, Art Monthly and other publications for over thirty years.

Editing

Radok guest edited six issues of Artlink.

  • Emerging Artists[6], December 1997
  • Reflection: 20th anniversary edition,[7] September, 2000
  • Place[8], June 2002
  • Adelaide and Beyond[9], March 2004
  • New Zealand Contemporary Art: Tungarawaewae: a place to stand [10], June 2006
  • The South Issue[11], June 2007

Radok co-edited with Daniel Browning[12] the first three issues of Artlink Indigenous.

  • Beauty and Terror[13], June 2011
  • Indignation[14], June 2012
  • Re-visions[15], June 2013

Art practice

Radok has held 19 solo exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions from 1977, with an artwork in The Women’s Show[16] in Adelaide in 1977. A major survey exhibition titled The Sublingual Museum was held at the Flinders University Museum of Art in 2011.[17]

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2020 The Museum of Domestic Botany, Fabrik[18], Lobethal, SA
  • 2017 A Prospect of Prospects, Prospect Gallery, SA
  • 2011 The Sublingual Museum[19], Flinders University City Gallery
  • 2004 Brightness falls from the air, N Gallery, South Australian School of Art, SA
  • 2004 Shalom, Nexus Window, Adelaide, SA
  • 2003 The Weight of Words, South Australian Museum
  • 2003 Migration and local knowledge, Gabriel Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

Collections

Books

Radok is the co-author of a book published in 2007 on leading contemporary Australian jeweller Julie Blyfield[22] [23]

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.[24]

Radok’s second memoir Becoming a Bird was published in March 2021.

"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,[25] Transnational Literature.[24]

"Becoming a Bird[26] is a gentle, deeply personal indulgence by Stephanie Radok, a noted Australian writer and artist, where she reflects and recalls memories, as she visits museums and galleries around the world."[26]

Stephanie Radok website

Folio with Guildhouse

References

  1. ^ "Stephanie Radok". Framer Framed. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  2. ^ "Stephanie Radok · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  3. ^ "'Unreal City' gets magazine on the arts". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 1986-12-04. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  4. ^ Grishin, Sasha (2015-05-18). "Urban Suburban art review: a view of Canberra that is out of date". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  5. ^ "Hossein Valamanesh + Sherman Galleries Goodhope". www.shermangalleries.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  6. ^ "Emerging Artists | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  7. ^ "Reflection: 20th Anniversary Issue | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  8. ^ "Place | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  9. ^ "Adelaide and Beyond | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  10. ^ "New Zealand Contemporary Art Turangawaewae A Place to Stand | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  11. ^ "The South Issue: New Horizons | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  12. ^ Banking and related financial services. International bank account number (IBAN), BSI British Standards, retrieved 2021-06-23
  13. ^ "Indigenous: Beauty & Terror | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  14. ^ "Indigenous: Indignation | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  15. ^ "Indigenous: Re-visions | Artlink Magazine". www.artlink.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "Stephanie Radok, Author at The Nature of Cities". The Nature of Cities. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
  18. ^ "The Museum of Domestic Botany". Fabrik. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ "Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  21. ^ "FUMA | Flinders University Museum of Art". Flinders University. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  22. ^ Www.australi, Esigncentre com; Office: +61 2 9361 4555, esigncentre com T: Gallery: +61 2 8599 7999. "Julie Blyfield". Australian Design Centre. Retrieved 2021-06-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ "Wakefield Press :: Arts, Architecture and Design :: Julie Blyfield". www.wakefieldpress.com.au. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  24. ^ a b "Transnational Literature - Current Issue: 5.2, May 2013". fhrc.flinders.edu.au. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
  25. ^ "Dr Michele McCrea". Flinders University. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  26. ^ a b rodmclary. "Becoming a Bird by Stephanie Radok". Queensland Reviewers Collective. Retrieved 2021-06-20.

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