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'''Stephanie Radok''' (born 1954) is an artist and writer based in Adelaide, South Australia, whose work is held in the [[National Gallery of Australia]] and the [[National Gallery of Victoria]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Stephanie Radok|url=https://framerframed.nl/en/mensen/stephanie-radok/|access-date=2021-06-16|website=Framer Framed|language=en-EN}}</ref> She worked as a general editor for [[Artlink]] and as an art critic for [[Artlink]], [[The Adelaide Review|Adelaide Review]], and [[Art Monthly Australasia|Art Monthly Australia]] and since 2024 has written reviews for The Saturday Paper.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA|date=14 December 2024 |url=https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/visual-art/2024/12/14/asia-pacific-triennial-contemporary-art-qagoma#mtr}}</ref> |
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== Biography == |
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'''Stephanie Radok''' is an artist and writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. She worked as a general editor for [[Artlink]] for many years and as an art critic for [[Artlink]], [[The Adelaide Review|Adelaide Review]], [[Art Monthly Australasia|Art Monthly Australia]] and other publications. |
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| ⚫ | Radok was born in [[Melbourne]], Australia, in 1954.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Stephanie Radok · The Stella Prize|url=https://thestellaprize.com.au/writer/stephanie-radok/|access-date=2021-06-16|website=The Stella Prize|date=7 August 2017 |language=en-US}}</ref> Radok studied a degree in Visual Arts, with a major in Printmaking, at the [[Canberra School of Art]] from 1982 to 1985. In 2002, she completed a Master of Arts in Visual Art at the [[University of South Australia|South Australian School of Art]].{{cn|date=August 2024}} |
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| ⚫ | Radok’s writing about art is linked to memoir and the everyday, lyrical passages and descriptions of artworks. Radok’s writing was first published in the art magazine ''Unreal City'',<ref>{{Cite news|date=1986-12-04|title='Unreal City' gets magazine on the arts|pages=2|work=Canberra Times (ACT : 1926–1995)|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130632612|access-date=2021-06-20}}</ref> which she founded with [[EX De Medici|eX de Medici]] in 1986 in [[Canberra]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grishin|first=Sasha|date=2015-05-18|title=Urban Suburban art review: a view of Canberra that is out of date|url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6067513/urban-suburban-art-review-a-view-of-canberra-that-is-out-of-date/|access-date=2021-06-20|website=The Canberra Times|language=en-AU}}</ref> She has written many catalogue essays including a notable one for [[Hossein Valamanesh]] titled Fingers of Memory.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hossein Valamanesh + Sherman Galleries Goodhope|url=http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/artists_exhib/artists/valamanesh/fingers.html|access-date=2021-06-20|website=www.shermangalleries.com.au}}</ref> |
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== '''Background''' == |
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== Art practice == |
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Radok has held 19 solo exhibitions.{{cn|date=January 2022}} |
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| ⚫ | Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions from 1977, with an artwork in ''The Women’s Show'' held by the [[Women's Art Movement]] in [[Adelaide]] in 1977.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1310567|title=The women's show, Adelaide, 1977|date=1978|publisher=[[Experimental Art Foundation]]|isbn=978-0-9596729-2-3|editor-last=[[Women's Art Movement]] (S.A.)|location=St. Peters, S.A|editor-last2=Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide, S.A.)}}</ref> A major survey exhibition titled ''The Sublingual Museum'' was held at the [[Flinders University Museum of Art]] in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stephanie Radok, Author at The Nature of Cities|url=https://www.thenatureofcities.com/author/stephanieradok/|access-date=2021-06-16|website=The Nature of Cities|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Radok’s writing was first published in the art magazine ''Unreal City''<ref>{{Cite news|date=1986-12-04|title='Unreal City' gets magazine on the arts|pages=2|work=Canberra Times (ACT : |
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Radok is the co-author of a book published in 2007 on leading contemporary Australian jeweller Julie Blyfield.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Www.australi|first1=Esigncentre com|last2=Office: +61 2 9361 4555|first2=esigncentre com T: Gallery: +61 2 8599 7999|title=Julie Blyfield|url=https://australiandesigncentre.com/madeworncontemporaryjewellery/julie-blyfield/|access-date=2021-06-27|website=Australian Design Centre|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Wakefield Press :: Arts, Architecture and Design :: Julie Blyfield|url=https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/product.php?productid=427|access-date=2021-06-27|website=www.wakefieldpress.com.au}}</ref> |
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== '''Career''' == |
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In 2012 Radok’s book ''An Opening: twelve love stories about art'' was published by [[Wakefield Press (Australia)|Wakefield Press]]. It was long listed for the inaugural [[Stella Prize]] for writing by women, and was widely reviewed.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Transnational Literature – Current Issue: 5.2, May 2013|url=https://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/vol5_issue2.html|access-date=2021-06-20|website=fhrc.flinders.edu.au}}</ref> |
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She has written about Australian Indigenous art. <ref name=":1" /> Her publishing career is notable as a long-term general editor with [https://www.artlink.com.au Artlink] Magazine including Artlink Indigenous from 1997 - 2013.<ref name=":0" /> Her writing style involves descriptive responses to material culture alongside personal anecdotes of her suburban life in Adelaide with her pet dogs. <ref name=":0" /> <br>Radok was editor and proofreader for [https://www.unisa.edu.au/connect/samstag-museum/ University of South Australia Art Museum] from 1990 to 2004. In 2012 her novel An Opening: twelve love stories about art,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Radok|first=Stephanie|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5739091|title=An opening: twelve love stories about art|date=2012|publisher=Wakefield Press|isbn=978-1-74305-041-5|location=Kent Town, S. Aust|oclc=758029032}}</ref> was longlisted for the [[Stella Prize]]. |
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"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,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Michele McCrea|url=https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/michele.mccrea|access-date=2021-06-27|website=Flinders University|language=en}}</ref> ''Transnational Literature.''<ref name=":2" /> |
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Radok’s second memoir, ''Becoming a Bird'', was published in March 2021.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=rodmclary|title=Becoming a Bird by Stephanie Radok|url=https://www.queenslandreviewerscollective.com/2021/03/19/becoming-a-bird-by-stephanie-radok/|access-date=2021-06-20|website=Queensland Reviewers Collective|date=19 March 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2022 Radok wrote a piece of prose titled Under the Bed published in [https://giramondopublishing.com/heat/archive/stephanie-radok-under-the-bed/ Heat]. |
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== Selected solo exhibitions == |
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* 2020 ''The Museum of Domestic Botany'', Fabrik,<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Museum of Domestic Botany|url=https://fabrik.org.au/the-museum-of-domestic-botany/|access-date=2021-06-21|website=Fabrik|language=en-US}}</ref> Lobethal, SA |
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* 2017 ''A Prospect of Prospects'', Prospect Gallery, SA |
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| ⚫ | * 2011 ''The Sublingual Museum'',<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Radok|first1=Stephanie|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5298939|title=The sublingual museum: Stephanie Radok: Flinders University City Gallery 9 July – 21 August 2011|last2=Salmon|first2=Fiona|last3=Smith|first3=Jason|date=2011|publisher=Flinders University Art Museum|others=Flinders University Art Museum|isbn=978-0-9805208-4-2|location=Adelaide|oclc=731733384}}</ref> Flinders University City Gallery |
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* 2004 ''Shalom'', Nexus Window, Adelaide, SA |
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* 2003 ''The Weight of Words'', South Australian Museum |
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| ⚫ | * 2011 The Sublingual Museum, |
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== Collections == |
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* National Gallery of Australia<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Gallery – Stephanie Radok|url=https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/results?keyword=Stephanie%20Radok&searchIn=artistOrCulture|access-date=2021-07-15|website=searchthecollection.nga.gov.au}}</ref> |
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* National Gallery of Victoria<ref>{{Cite web|title=Artists {{!}} NGV|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/artist/14059/|access-date=2021-06-23|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au}}</ref> |
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* [[Flinders University Museum of Art|Flinders University Art Museum]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=FUMA {{!}} Flinders University Museum of Art|url=https://www.flinders.edu.au/museum-of-art|access-date=2021-06-23|website=Flinders University|language=en}}</ref> |
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* [https://nga.gov.au National Gallery of Australia] |
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* [https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au National Gallery of Victoria] |
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* [https://www.flinders.edu.au/museum-of-art Flinders University Art Museum] |
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* [https://www.thewag.com.au Warnambool Art Gallery] |
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* Folio with [https://guildhouse.org.au/folio/MnTbTLq/stephanie-radok/ Guildhouse] |
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== '''Books''' == |
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In 2012 Radok’s book ''An Opening: twelve love stories about art'' was published by [[Wakefield Press (Australia)|Wakefield Press]]. It was long listed for the inaugural [[Stella Prize]] for writing by women, and was widely reviewed.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Transnational Literature - Current Issue: 5.2, May 2013|url=https://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/vol5_issue2.html|access-date=2021-06-20|website=fhrc.flinders.edu.au}}</ref> "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<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Michele McCrea|url=https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/michele.mccrea|access-date=2021-06-20|website=Flinders University|language=en}}</ref>, ''Transnational Literature.''<ref name=":2" /> "These are love stories, passages about loved works and intersections with moments, places and people which are close to the author’s heart. This volume is an open heart turned to another – sufficient on any given day to remake the world".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Art Monthly Australasia-Issue 258 April 2013|url=https://www.artmonthly.org.au/issue-258-april-2013|access-date=2021-06-20|website=Art Monthly Australasia|language=en-AU}}</ref> Jenny McFarlane, ''[[Art Monthly Australasia]]. In 2021 Radok’s book Becoming a Bird: untold stories about art'' was published and reviewed. ''"Becoming a Bird 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."''<ref>{{Cite web|last=rodmclary|title=Becoming a Bird by Stephanie Radok|url=https://www.queenslandreviewerscollective.com/2021/03/19/becoming-a-bird-by-stephanie-radok/|access-date=2021-06-20|website=Queensland Reviewers Collective|language=en-US}}</ref> "It has taken over a whole week to read this short book because the author kept tempting me to explore the work of the artists about whom she writes so enticingly."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-10|title=Becoming a Bird, by Stephanie Radok|url=https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/05/10/becoming-a-bird-by-stephanie-radok/|access-date=2021-06-20|website=ANZ LitLovers LitBlog|language=en}}</ref> "Radok describes her latest book as 'connecting[ing] stories about travel and home, museums and memory, art and freedom, reverie and nest-building with what is at hand'. With a chapter for each month of the year, her writing often starts with a postcard or some kind of artwork which brings forth thoughts and memories of the many galleries and museums she has visited and the artists she has researched, drawing connections with others, with Indigenous culture, and with the natural world in which she finds herself. They are musings that spark our own thoughts about art and life."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mar 19 2021|title=Becoming a bird|url=https://www.readplus.com.au/reviews/becoming-a-bird|access-date=2021-06-20|website=www.readplus.com.au|language=en}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 06:37, 9 January 2025
Stephanie Radok (born 1954) is an artist and writer based in Adelaide, South Australia, whose work is held in the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria.[1] She worked as a general editor for Artlink and as an art critic for Artlink, Adelaide Review, and Art Monthly Australia and since 2024 has written reviews for The Saturday Paper.[2]
Biography
[edit]Radok was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1954.[3] Radok studied a degree in Visual Arts, with a major in Printmaking, at the Canberra School of Art from 1982 to 1985. In 2002, she completed a Master of Arts in Visual Art at the South Australian School of Art.[citation needed]
Radok’s writing about art is linked to memoir and the everyday, lyrical passages and descriptions of artworks. Radok’s writing was first published in the art magazine Unreal City,[4] which she founded with eX de Medici in 1986 in Canberra.[5] She has written many catalogue essays including a notable one for Hossein Valamanesh titled Fingers of Memory.[6]
Art practice
[edit]Radok has held 19 solo exhibitions.[citation needed]
Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions from 1977, with an artwork in The Women’s Show held by the Women's Art Movement in Adelaide in 1977.[7] A major survey exhibition titled The Sublingual Museum was held at the Flinders University Museum of Art in 2011.[8]
Radok is the co-author of a book published in 2007 on leading contemporary Australian jeweller Julie Blyfield.[9][10]
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.[11]
"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,[12] Transnational Literature.[11]
Radok’s second memoir, Becoming a Bird, was published in March 2021.[13] In 2022 Radok wrote a piece of prose titled Under the Bed published in Heat.
Selected solo exhibitions
[edit]- 2020 The Museum of Domestic Botany, Fabrik,[14] Lobethal, SA
- 2017 A Prospect of Prospects, Prospect Gallery, SA
- 2011 The Sublingual Museum,[15] 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
- 2002 Talking about country, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, SA
- 1999 Her native tongue, Gallery Spain, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide, SA
Collections
[edit]- National Gallery of Australia[16]
- National Gallery of Victoria[17]
- Flinders University Art Museum[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "Stephanie Radok". Framer Framed. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA". 14 December 2024.
- ^ "Stephanie Radok · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "'Unreal City' gets magazine on the arts". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926–1995). 4 December 1986. p. 2. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ Grishin, Sasha (18 May 2015). "Urban Suburban art review: a view of Canberra that is out of date". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ "Hossein Valamanesh + Sherman Galleries Goodhope". www.shermangalleries.com.au. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Stephanie Radok, Author at The Nature of Cities". The Nature of Cities. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ Www.australi, Esigncentre com; Office: +61 2 9361 4555, esigncentre com T: Gallery: +61 2 8599 7999. "Julie Blyfield". Australian Design Centre. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Wakefield Press :: Arts, Architecture and Design :: Julie Blyfield". www.wakefieldpress.com.au. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ a b "Transnational Literature – Current Issue: 5.2, May 2013". fhrc.flinders.edu.au. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ "Dr Michele McCrea". Flinders University. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ rodmclary (19 March 2021). "Becoming a Bird by Stephanie Radok". Queensland Reviewers Collective. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ "The Museum of Domestic Botany". Fabrik. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "National Gallery – Stephanie Radok". searchthecollection.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
- ^ "Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- ^ "FUMA | Flinders University Museum of Art". Flinders University. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Folio with Guildhouse
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