Stephanie Radok trained at Canberra School of Art in printmaking and drawing. She has an MA from the South Australian School of Art where her art practice research project was ‘Rapture: responding to Aboriginal art’.
Based in Adelaide she has worked as an art critic and editor in Australia for over twenty-five years. She was General Editor of Artlink magazine and guest-edited nine issues of Artlink including co-editing the first three issues of its annual mega-issue Artlink Indigenous.
Radok both makes art and writes about it with an expanded perception of its role. Her writing bears witness to the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art in Australia and the environmental obsessions of Australian art. In 2012 her non-fiction book An Opening: Twelve love stories about art was published. In 2013 An Opening was longlisted for the inaugural Stella Prize for literature by women writers and for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers.
Radok’s artwork in the form of works on paper, objects and prints, is about diasporas, country, language, migration, extinction, translation, perception, and relationships between people, plants and animals.
In 2011 her survey exhibition The Sublingual Museum was held at Flinders University Art Museum. Its guiding idea was that there is in all kinds of museums, whether their focus is art, natural history or archaeology, an active level beneath language through which objects communicate.
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- Date written:
- 2016
- Last updated:
- 2016
