Creative research and exhibitions
From early career Stefan cultivated two streams of professional activity: commercially driven and experimentally driven, or arts-based research. His arts projects have included conceptual works in a variety of graphic and sculptural forms, installations and design for contemporary performance.
They have been selected for festivals and exhibited many times in Australia, Japan, USA, South Korea and elsewhere. And featured in books and reviewed in publications. Performance art installations have toured Australia and overseas.
His work is in the permanent design collection of the WA State gallery. And was the first Australian design work invited to exhibit at the prestigious VIA in Paris (Valorisation de l'Innovation dans l'Ameublement).
Numerous projects have been supported financially by the Australia Council for the Art, Ministries for the Arts in NSW and SA, industry sponsors and private patronage.
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The boundaries between commercial and arts driven activity have been consistently and intentionally crossed, and often used to catalyse one another. In part this is aimed at recognising 'process' as inseparable to 'object'.
In particular, concentrating on the notion that designers and makers contribute different values; exponentially enhancing creative agency when these are not the same individual. Making the challenge, and reward, of creative production a social one. An idea that saw many deep collaborations with industrial manufacturers on work that would be presented as art.
+ list of selected exhibitions
- Design Touch, Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo Design Week
- Australian Fashion Showcase, Australian Embassy, Tokyo
- Vivid, Sydney [Melbourne]
- Design Innovation Showcase, Aust Int’l Furniture Fair, Sydney
- Tyranny of Distance, Tokyo Design Week
- Seoul Design Week, South Korea
- Bond, Hotel Claska, Tokyo
- Hybrid Objects, Australian Embassy, Tokyo
- Acquired by Western Australian Art Gallery
- Festival of Arts, Adelaide, Australia
- Int'l Symposium of Electronic Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Solo and group exhibitions Tokyo, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide