Stephanie Radok

The Trees are Listening

February 6 - March 22, 2026

Exhibition launch Friday February 6th at 6pm

Trees live alongside us. We grow up together, we share memories and experiences.  These paintings are about distance and intimacy. They draw in the viewer and hold onto them.

Stephanie Radok, 2026

BIO

Stephanie Radok: My art practice investigates knowledge and its taxonomies. It explores the way that interpretations of the world are systematised and controlled. It questions the status quo and the authority of experts. It combines exploration of collections in institutions such as libraries and museums with observation of the everyday. It is engaged with issues of translation and migration – of plants, of people, of words. It has been shown in the Barr Smith Library, the Museum of Economic Botany and the South Australian Museum as well as in the window of the Samstag Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Geelong Art Gallery and at the Flinders University Museum of Art.

Though intellectual and investigative my work is insistently haptic and sensuous, poetic and associative. It uses the media of brush and ink on paper, of paint on found cardboard, of etching on paper, and books cast in plaster. The delicacy of each of these mediums emphasise the suggestive layers of knowledge and experience embedded in the works.The artworks encounter elements of the world around us – weeds, vegetables, birds, animals, trees  – both as if for the first time and as they exist globally in history through documents and encyclopaedias.

There is a constant engagement with writing and images and their relationship to one another