Stephanie Jane Burt on Looking, Communicating Girlhood through Fiction and Fashion as a Vehicle for Expression

Stephanie Jane Burt is an artist whose practice spans from sculptural installations to fictional prose. She completed her studies at Glasgow School of Art, where she received her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Painting and her Master of Fine Arts. Her work invites the viewer to explore dialogues between her installations and their settings through a fictional narrative at times referencing film and literature. Her research looks across feminism, gender, an analysis of girl culture and the nouveau roman. She recently completed a residency at ISCP New York in 2019 and has started a research project, A Stubborn Bloom, which explores representations of femininity within fashion, film and material culture.

A large crinoline sculpture with materials delicately hung and draped. Small frames that have been punctured or bound together. Stephanie Jane Burt is well aware of the power of the materials she uses, and how the relationships between them can evoke a thousand and one different possibilities. Her recent exhibition at Yeo Workshop, What is the current that presents a behaved waist, was an embodiment of these ideas. Materials and objects are rich repositories for Stephanie, and through her imagination, they coalesce into worlds.