An Insight Into The Feminist Art of Stephanie Leigh

Running my production company Nexus Production Group from Studio 106 in St Kilda means that each day I bump into a the artists who also rent spaces in the building.

I had crossed paths with new tenant Stephanie Leigh a couple of times in the hall and we have smiled or said hello. However it was not until her latest exhibition, Suspended Woman A Weighty Burden, was it brought to my attention, via a group email, that I realised Stephanie and I had plenty to talk about.

Last week I finally arrived at Mars Gallery in Windsor to support Stephanies exhibition and was lucky enough to catch the end of her talk and chat with her afterwards. Stephanie elaborated on the female form in her work, how it was inspired by art history and the representation of women in art over the centuries. This exhibition and what it stood for stayed with me for days.

When I had the chance to sit down with Stephanie over coffee I learnt that she is very passionate about the subject of womens representation in art and takes a very feminist approach to creating her work. Unlike myself who is new to feminism and is mostly self taught through reading a lot on the subject, Stephanie told me that her feminist views grew through art school. I kept constantly engaged in interesting discussion, everything is thought provoking and the people that I met were epic. The women I met at art school, that is where I learnt everything about feminism and myself.