In the garden
from What are you looking at? Hosted by Contemporary Art Tasmania
Bec Stevens and Stephanie Doddridge tell us about their creative practices and how their experiences and understanding of gardening, ecological systems and community have shaped the way that they make art. Together, they deep dive into a conversation which covers how creative practice can intersect with everything from seed collecting to compost heaps. Stephanie Doddridge is an emerging artist working on Kaurna Country. Stephanie engages with garden-derived materials, plants and seeds to understand human-nature relationships, notions of reciprocal care and quiet activism. Stephanie completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (First Class Honours) at the University of South Australia in 2022, receiving an Award for Outstanding Achievement. She won the City Rural Emerging Artist Award for SALA Festival 2023, was selected to undertake the Guildhouse Collections Project with FUMA in 2024 and has also exhibited at PICA, Feltspace, and ACE. Stephanie was the Project Curator for the Helpmann Academy 2025 Graduate Exhibition in SASA Gallery and is currently undertaking the ACE Studios Residency. Bec Stevens is an artist based in Nipaluna. She works with an interdisciplinary practice and is currently on a long-term residency in the Tasmanian health system, working with the stories and connections that arise from a bespoke three-tiered garden on a trolley. Bec and Steph reference some books in this chat: The Planetary Garden by Gilles Clement The Well-Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism Edited by Smith, Liese, Ammirati
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