STATEMENT

A preference for primary forms, repetitive surface patterns, and the interplay of lines, corners, and edges defines my work, and within this apparent blandness, I seek the extra or “other” which leads to a new discovery and interpretation of the scene.

Humour helps to humanise and make the work memorable, however finding beauty where none invites us to pause and notice the “super-small” ordinaries of everyday life.

I look to visual contrast, encroachment, or subtle intervention within its surroundings to heightened the energy, and coupled with seasonal variance, along with daily use and misuse, this further helps to shape the character of each scene.

Most importantly I try to isolate fragments from their wider environment, to create refined, quieter views — moments of clarity stripped of excess, revealing a transparent and understated beauty. The forgotten becomes the new hero through subtely rather than grand gesture, and the unseen is revealed.

BIO

Brisbane architect, Steffen Tuck focuses on banal urban environments, looking for forgotten beauties, and likes to travel to investigate other settings where her basic forms and shapes, lines, colour and shadow provide the basis for her minimal abstracted works. Her images has been purchased locally and internationally, and her work exhibited within Australia, and in London and New York group exhibits. Many of her images have been used for album and book covers, and more recently for client branding in the US.