Esther Stewart | Artist | I was moving too fast to see

Objectspace installation artist

Esther Stewart lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She creates paintings and installations that call on visual languages and concepts from architecture, design and geometry. Recently, Stewart has collaborated with architects and craftspeople to extend the spatial and material possibilities within her practice. Recent major works exhibited in Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and in The National 4; Australian Art Now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. Stewart completed a Bachelor with First Class Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2010, where she has lectured in the School of Sculpture and Spatial Practice, and is currently completing a Masters of Architecture. Stewart has worked on major commissions for Bendigo Hospital, SlowBeam, ChenChow Little, Shepparton Art and for the Crowsnest Metro City train station in Sydney. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and art fairs, including at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne. Stewart’s work is held in public and private collections internationally, including Artbank, Australia; Ballarat Art Gallery; and Lyons House Museum, Melbourne. She is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney and Station Gallery, Melbourne.