STATEMENT

I look into bland urban landscapes as blank canvases seeking details overlooked within the visual chaos of the everyday scene. A preference for simple forms, repetitive patterns, shapes and line, and colour, light and shadow all interplay to hone, heighten or highlight each scene.

Isolation of these details as fragments taken from their wider environment help create a refined, quieter view: a moment of clarity stripped of excess, revealing an understated beauty.

The once-forgotten now becomes the new hero through subtlety rather than grand gesture. Humour helps to humanise the work and make it memorable.

By finding beauty where none was expected, the image now invites us to pause and notice the super small ordinary in the everyday.

BIO

Brisbane architect Steffen Tuck focuses on everyday urbanscapes searching for simple, forgotten elements that reveal a quiet beauty or calm. Most images are collected locally, however travel affords the opportunity to investigate a wider field where visual constraint still aims to create minimalist abstracted works.

Steffen’s images have been purchased locally and internationally, and exhibited in Australia as well as group exhibitions in London and New York. Many have been used for album and book covers over the years, and more recently a collection of her work was used for a US client rebranding project.