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Samantha Stephenson


  • SHAC Gallery 91 Hoddle Street Robertson, NSW, 2577 Australia (map)

Exhibition Title: Still, it moves

This exhibition traces movement, memory, and material—an attempt to anchor the ephemeral. It brings together works from different moments, each emerging from recurrent themes of time, connection, and the tension between permanence and impermanence. At its centre are recent paintings that follow the gestures of waterfalls—not as representations, but as layered records of motion, light, and the visceral.

Water, like memory, resists capture. I am interested in the experience of a subject, in this case, the residue of the waterfall and—its imprint, its presence felt through absence. These surfaces become sites of both remembering and forgetting, where the essence of place is abstracted into colour, movement and mark.

The sculptures continue these explorations, giving form to the fluid. Steel—typically hard and unyielding—is shaped and treated as if it were a living, pliable substance. Through curves, colour, and deliberate gesture, the work evokes a sense of softness and motion. These forms move with the cadence of water: open, sensuous, and ever-shifting. They unfold and transform as the viewer moves around them. Each piece feels suspended in a moment of transition, asking how form can embody both solidity and movement, stillness and flow.

These works sit in the quiet tension between the ordinary and the sacred, the ephemeral and the enduring. It is about what remains—after water has passed, after time has slipped by. In a world of impermanence, these pieces search for something indelible.

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