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

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] In 2022 Radok published a short story titled Under the Bed in the publication Heat.[7]

Art practice

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.[8] A major survey exhibition titled The Sublingual Museum was held at the Flinders University Museum of Art in 2011.[9]

Radok is the co-author of a book published in 2007 on leading contemporary Australian jeweller Julie Blyfield.[10][11]

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.[12]

"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,[13] Transnational Literature.[12]

Radok’s second memoir, Becoming a Bird, was published in March 2021.[14] In 2022 Radok wrote a piece of prose titled Under the Bed published in Heat.

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2020 The Museum of Domestic Botany, Fabrik,[15] Lobethal, SA
  • 2017 A Prospect of Prospects, Prospect Gallery, SA
  • 2011 The Sublingual Museum,[16] 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

References

  1. ^ "Stephanie Radok". Framer Framed. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at QAGOMA". 14 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Stephanie Radok · The Stella Prize". The Stella Prize. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  4. ^ "'Unreal City' gets magazine on the arts". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926–1995). 4 December 1986. p. 2. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Hossein Valamanesh + Sherman Galleries Goodhope". www.shermangalleries.com.au. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Stephanie Radok | Under the Bed | HEAT Series 3 Number 5". Giramondo Publishing. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Stephanie Radok, Author at The Nature of Cities". The Nature of Cities. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  10. ^ 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)
  11. ^ "Wakefield Press :: Arts, Architecture and Design :: Julie Blyfield". www.wakefieldpress.com.au. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Transnational Literature – Current Issue: 5.2, May 2013". fhrc.flinders.edu.au. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  13. ^ "Dr Michele McCrea". Flinders University. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  14. ^ rodmclary (19 March 2021). "Becoming a Bird by Stephanie Radok". Queensland Reviewers Collective. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
  15. ^ "The Museum of Domestic Botany". Fabrik. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ "National Gallery – Stephanie Radok". searchthecollection.nga.gov.au. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
  18. ^ "Artists | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  19. ^ "FUMA | Flinders University Museum of Art". Flinders University. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
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