ARTIST BIO
Lives and works in Glasgow, UK
Stephanie Black-Daniels is a contemporary artist best known for her performance and installation work examining the dynamics between body, object and action.
Her work combines sculpture, performance, video, drawing and print to explore ideas around gender, identity and exhaustion. Her work is both research-based and collaborative, using her own body, and the bodies of others to explore notions around gender, sexuality and somatic expression.
Her work is deeply rooted in exploring the highly physicalised body, creating body objects, apparatuses, extensions and frames for performance actions. Her performance scores and choreographic approach looks to expand ways architecture, sculpture and the body can relate with universal roles, rituals and instructions. Materials found in her work are often linked to references in sport and manual labour such as steel, wood, graphite, rope and chalk.
Stephanie was mentored by the late gender activist and performance artist Diane Torr and is a graduate from Glasgow School of Art’s Performance Pathway
Performance action for camera whilst on residence at Despina Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2018
Masters programme (2018). Since graduating, Stephanie has exhibited at galleries such as The Fruitmarket Gallery, The Royal Scottish Academy and Patiothall Gallery (Edinburgh) and Despina (Rio de Janeiro). She was recently awarded the Glasgow Visual Art and Craft Maker award 2019/2020 and commissioned by ScotRail Foundation Cultural and Arts Grant Programme to create a new site-specific project for Glasgow’s historic Central Station.