Stephen Eastaugh
“I want to frame the beauty and chaos in another way. I collect, juggle, meld and ponder in order to interpret what I glean from this outlandish land of ice into art.”
Stephen Eastaugh is a Western Australian–based contemporary artist whose vibrant, semi-abstract mixed-media works are deeply shaped by decades of global travel and immersion in remote and extreme landscapes. Calling himself “geographically promiscuous,” Eastaugh has journeyed to nearly 100 countries, establishing studios in unlikely places—from Russian icebreakers in the Arctic to winter-isolated Antarctic stations and even a bus in the Sahara Desert.
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, with further studies in Oslo and Tasmania, Eastaugh has held more than 100 solo and 140 group exhibitions worldwide. His extensive travels—including nine journeys to Antarctica, three as the official Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow—form the foundation of his long-running series Unstill Life, which translates memory, geography, dislocation, and human movement into richly layered compositions of thread, fabric, encaustic wax, paper, oilstick, and found materials.
Eastaugh’s works, which blur the boundaries of map and memory, are represented in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the Australian Antarctic Division Collection.
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