About Stella
Stella T. Nguyen is an artist with many passions. Her artwork is focused on representing emotions and states of being she finds hard to describe or name. Stella uses art making itself as a form of therapy to better understand the patterns, feelings and truths in her life she has either repressed, is making sense of or needs to release. Her art is her exhalation after a period of holding breath. Her portfolio exists as a personal yet universal emotive journal. Stella hopes her work encourages contemplation and discussion where you can share your own life experiences.
Stella fills her journal with digital and analogue photography, self- portraiture, collage and poetry. The raw vulnerability of nudity, fierce power of Mother Nature and a touch of whimsy influence Stella’s aesthetic. To refine, compete with and challenge her ideas, Stella draws from her mess of a life, friends and inspirators and work.
Beyond her emotive work, Stella likes to use photography as a way to slow down and embrace the world as it is around her.
She works as a Visual Art teacher but has taught in different disciplines . She holds a Bachelor of Education (Sec)/Science degree, Masters in Experiential and Creative Arts Practice and part way completed an Advanced Diploma in Photography.
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Exhibited works
The Influence of Inspiration, The MIECAT Institute, 2013
Within myself, Entry for the Stella Mountjouris Memorial Art Acquisition Award, The MIECAT Institute, 2015
The Fish Monger – featured image, Portraits of the West, Ruffian Gallery 2015
Affliction from Be Here With Me – featured image, PSC End of Year Exhibition 2015, Photography Studies College, 2015
Be Here With Me, Wrecked: A Group Exhibition, Ruffian Gallery 2015
Emergence, Self Portraiture, a group exhibiton curated by Yolantha Morrigan, BSG 2016
Emergence, Entry for the Stella Mountjouris Memorial Art Acquisition Award, The MIECAT Institute, 2016
Nothing is as it seems, Nothing is as it seems solo exhibition, BSG 2016
Nothing is as it seems, Ballarat Foto Bienale - Eclectic Tastes Cafe & Pantry 2017
Muted Screams, Black Cat Gallery, 2018
Art Grants
Quick Response Art Grant, City of Melbourne, Round 2 - 2021
Awards
AIPP Victorian Awards 2016
Silver with distinction award - Landscape
Silver award - Illustrative
AIPP APPA awards 2016
Silver - Illustrative
AIPP Victorian Awards 2017
Two silver awards - Illustrative
AIPP Victorian Awards 2018
Two silver awards - Illustrative
AIPP APPA awards 2018
Silver - Illustrative