Stevie Poling

Bio

Stevie Poling is a queer multimedia artist working primarily with fibre and textile materials. She was born in the Kootenays and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. Stevie practices textile manipulation through an interdisciplinary feminist and queer lens, viewing the medium as an “inherently female and/or queer practice”. The connections made within sewing communities is manifested in the way fibres are woven and tangled together to form a garment or artwork.

She is inspired by her Mum, Samantha, who is a quietly counter-cultural feminist, an antique collector, and photographic artist. Samantha’s love of history and oddities found its way inherently interwoven into Stevie’s practice, visualised in her maximalist exploration of themes of domesticity and patriarchal expectations and, further, the Abject (Julia Kristeva) and embodiment. Stevie’s work aims to evoke a playful sense of scale and gesture while counterbalancing its’ aesthetic with dichotomous feminist and queer discourse.