anne stevens
moments of beauty

Moments of Beauty, a moving image work, captures the ritualistic lighting and observation of a fire which had been prepared by my father and left unnoticed for 12 years. After the last fire in 2010, he had meticulously placed scrunched paper and kindling/wood ready for the following winter, a winter he did not live to see. This fire sat hidden until the one remaining item left in an emptying house (after my mother’s death), a fire screen, was removed.

Moments of Beauty, records this fire’s wondrous transformation, unveiling it’s 12 years of hidden potential: the fire confidently takes, crackling and popping with life, reaches its peak, roaring in anticipation and then slowly subsides, petering out, leaving its material trace of memory: documenting the passing of time, a reminder of the fragility of temporal existence.

Artist Biography

Anne Stevens (She/ her/hers) is a Tarntanya (Adelaide) based artist who primarily makes use of non-traditional materials to generate fragile and vulnerable works that attempt to convey the intrigue she finds in the affective qualities of the process of transformation. In 2016, Stevens graduated with First Class Honours from Adelaide Central School of Art. Since graduating, Stevens has been a finalist in a number of art prizes, including The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize (2017 & 2018) and exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions. Stevens works from Switchboard artist studios in Norwood, South Australia.

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