Kylie Stillman is enthralled by making, slowly by hand, repurposing, recycling materials to create sculptures, large and minute, that reveal ‘signs of life’ in the natural world. It could be a bird carved by hand from a stack of books or beads threaded or glued on paper mapping the tracery of a spider’s web made visible by morning dew. She works with old-fashioned craft and handiwork meshed with modern art concepts, ‘taking something very common and then giving it nobility’. The results are breathtakingly beautiful. 

Kylie talks about her approach to making and the realisation that buying a tube of red paint was exactly what her art could not be about.

You’ll find all the images and more information on Kylie’s website and her gallery representative Utopia Art Sydney 

Image credits:

Portrait of Kylie Stillman, photo: Sardi Klein, NY

Kylie Stillman, Nest 2022 hand cut books and nesting tables, 143 x 56 x 33cm

Kylie Stillman, Cross Grain 2022 hand stitched cotton and beads on paper, 51 x 35cm

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Thank you to Producer: Simon Grant Verb Syndicate; Editor: Mitchell Jones; Graphic Designer: Max Pasalic.