STATEMENT

I look within bland urban landscapes as blank canvases for vignettes or details that most overlook as visual chaos in their everyday. 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 or fragments from their wider environment to create a refined, quieter view: a moment of clarity stripped of excess, helps reveal an understated beauty, where the once-forgotten becomes the new hero through subtlety rather than grand gesture. Humour can help to humanise the work and make it memorable.

By finding beauty where none is expected, the image 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. Most of her images are collected locally, however travel affords the opportunity to investigate a wider field where her 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.