Stephanie Reisch & Bernard Taylor

Stephanie Reisch is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, freelance writer and arts educator based in Perth (Boorloo). Working primarily across painting, sound and digital media, her practice is concerned with exploring the unseen and unknown aspects of the natural world through primal interpretations of land, sea, and sky. Stephanie holds a BFA (Hons) and MFA from UWA and her work is held in private, corporate, and public collections nationally including the Town of Victoria Park and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Art Collection.

Bernard Taylor is an award-winning photographic artist, designer and educator based in Perth. With a practice spanning across fashion, sound, sculpture and digital media, his work frequently melds elements of contemporary culture within surreal and disjointed contexts.

FEATURED WORK

2022

All that we will remember is a large water filled aquarium devoid of life, sitting on a funerary pyre overlooking the ocean. There is an immediate surreal sensibility that emanates not only from seeing a fish tank waiting to be cremated, but also in the tank’s unusual emptiness – other than the few white rocks and dead coral contained within. The aquarium evokes a coffin and a funeral, a bleak portent for the world’s vast oceans. It is a contained echo of its limitless surroundings, creating a dialogue between the finite and the infinite; and the transition between the two.