Southport QLD
Stephen Baxter was born in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He has an Honours degree in Fine Art and lives and works from his home and studio in Southport, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
He is also known as ‘KingBricolage’.
Finalist in the 2022 Art Lovers Australia Prize.
Prize Finalist
Artworks: 51
The underlying research to Stephen’s working methodology is Bricolage. Structural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss coined the term in 1962. “The Bricoleur, reconstructs, and reuses found and at hand materials and ideas to produce something new with new meanings and insights”.
Stephen’s artworks are held in both private and public collections in several states and territories of Australia. His artworks have been exhibited in and collected by people in many other countries, including, USA, France, Russia, Turkiye, Singapore, Fiji, Germany, and England.
Australian Public Collections include:
QAGOMA – Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
ANU – Australian Dictionary of Biography Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
HOTA – Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
QUT – Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
USQ – University of Southeast Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, New South Wales.
Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia.
Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, New South Wales.
Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia.
Morton Bay Region Art Collection, Queensland, Australia.
Downlands College Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia.
Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
#8211; Southern Cross University, former Dean (Leone Cantrell) purchase.
Mater Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Gold Coast, Australia.
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