Stephanie Douet MRSS

‘Stephanie Douet is constantly distracted from her art practise by her superficial and impulsive readings of history and science. Marvels and wonders of the past, the natural world and oddities of human behaviour are unreadably channelled into her sculptures, paintings and drawings; Commedia dell’Arte, the British Raj, the Gaze, historic optical instruments, spectacle, political cariacature  and German Romanticism make mostly unrecognisable appearances in her work.

She reads in order to feel the unfamiliarity of the world and, like Phillip Guston,  paints what she want to see.  If she were not a sucker for the cheap one-liner and could resist bright colours and fashion she would be a conceptual artist.’

Biog: Born Folkestone, lives and works in Norfolk, BAHons in Art History from the University of East Anglia, MA Fine Art Norwich University of Arts. Solo exhibitions include ‘Hobson-Jobson’, Museum of Legacies Jaipur, India, ‘Real/Non-Real’, Modern Art Oxford. Recent group exhibitions include ‘Unstable Monuments’, Old Magistrates Court, Bristol, ‘Yellow Archangel’, General Practise, Lincoln, ‘Re-Contact’, Ankara Art Fair.