Bec Stevens
Bec Stevens is an artist preoccupied with plants, people and places. She trained in Fine Arts, Environmental Design and Horticulture and along with this formal training has been invested in building her plant knowledge from a young age. She works in a cross-disciplinary approach, core to her practice is drawing, listening, collaborating and responding to site, context and materiality. Her work spans from delighting in the process of making and conceptualising through to planning and delivering large-scale projects.
She believes in the capacity of creative practice to work through complex problems in lateral and effective ways. She uses emergent strategies to weave understandings of the social, historical and geographical attributes of the places we inhabit and embody.
Bec has been involved in the creative fields for 20 years with experience within community, galleries, museums and artist run initiatives. Most recent projects include the Seed Garden for Salamanca Arts Centre, designed in collaboration with indigenous horticulturalist Kris Schaffer and the New Horizons Preschool; and as a teaching artist on the Healing Ground Project for Kickstart Arts in the Remembering the Future Exhibition in collaboration with New Town Primary School. A key project that she devised was STOP. REST. PLAY. A three-week shopfront project in 2011 that visualised and involved children as active citizens in the CBD and invited public response to including children’s needs in our urban strategies.