SITAARA STODEL
Any Cat that Crosses Your Path is Good Luck, 2021
Found photographs and gold and neon vinyl on screen printed archival mounting board

Autumn Does Its Dance, 2021
Found photographs and Riso print on screen printed archival mounting board

315 x 265mm mm Framed

Sitaara Stodel is an artist who uses her creative practice to explore and unpack the experiences of moving homes regularly during her formative years. Throughout her many moves, from childhood to adult life, her idea around “home” has shifted and evolved many times. Her experience of the home as a transitory space has called into question the very nature of this concept. The artist, having experienced over and over the event of being removed, or removing herself, from spaces which are usually demarcated as a home, Stodel has had to grapple with the abstract concept of a home-space and the lived reality of one.

SITAARA STODEL
Flashy, 2021
A Warm Glow Came from Inside, 2021
Vacation House, 2021
Lots of Dark Corners, 2021
Found photographs and gold vinyl on screen printed archival mounting board
315 x 315 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Strong Women, 2021
Found photographs and gold thread on linen
415 x 360 mm Framed

“One of my favourites is the big blue piece on linen, ‘Family Reunion’, because I had decided that I wanted to choose elements that you’d find at a celebration at a house. In the end it looked like a whole lot of family reunions spliced together, which makes me feel very nostalgic. My mom is one of seven and my dad is one of eight children, so I have a huge extended family.”

- Sitaara Stodel

SITAARA STODEL
Family Reunion, 2021
Found photographs, gold thread and gold vinyl on linen
915 x 1215 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Backyard Matriarch, 2021
Follow the Moon, 2021
Fix It, 2021
Sunday Afternoon, 2021
Found photographs on Fabriano
280 x 280 mm Framed

“My memories of home are not only my lived experiences; but also of memories, dreams, imagined stories, and aspirations in my head. I like to think that these ideas in my head of home are all crammed into one house; each story holding these different stories.”

- Sitaara Stodel

SITAARA STODEL
It’s Raining Again I, 2021
It’s Raining Again II, 2021
Found photographs and gold vinyl on screen printed archival mounting board
315 x 265 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Inventory, 2021
Found photographs, gold vinyl and Riso print on screen printed archival mounting board
970 x 915 mm Framed

The realization that there is no perfect home, or perfect family to inhabit it, inspires Stodel to use the pictorial plane to deconstruct the representation of family and home, as well as her own memories, through the use of discarded family photographs. Using anonymous images created by people she has never met, the artist oscillates between abandoning and hoarding tableaus of conventional family life.

SITAARA STODEL
Window to my Garden, 2021
Found photographs and gold thread on linen
415 x 315 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Smashed Plates, 2021 | Time Stood Still, 2021 | The Clean Plate Club, 2021
Found photographs and Riso print on screen printed archival mounting board
315 x 265 mm Framed

A timelapse of the Artist working with her found photographs.

SITAARA STODEL
Family Albums, 2021
Found photographs and silver thread on linen
415 x 360 mm Framed

Family Time, 2021
Found photographs and gold thread on linen
610 x 515 mm Framed

If you Feel Carsick, Look into the Distance at the Mountains, 2021
Found photographs and gold thread on linen
415 x 360 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Burnt Shadow, 2021
One Foot Out the Door, 2021
Some Memories are Stronger Than Others, 2021
Three Meals a Day, 2021
Found photographs and Riso print on screen printed archival mounting board
315 x 315 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Time Traveller, 2021
Found photographs, Riso print, and vinyl on screen printed archival mounting board
825 x 615 mm Framed

“My approach to composition is both spontaneous and methodical; it depends on the artwork and the mood I’m in. Sometimes the composition comes easily and just sort of happens, and other times I struggle for so long to work out if it’s balanced or not, I usually have to leave it and come back to it the next day if that happens. With colour choice, I usually build off the background colour and work from there. I’ll choose about three main colours, and have the other chosen colours as ‘side characters’, so the artwork looks uniform. Often I’ll realise that I have roughly followed the shape of the Fibonacci spiral, or the rule of thirds. Teaching photography and being around a lot of thoughtfully composed photographs has also helped me compose my collages.”

- Sitaara Stodel

SITAARA STODEL
Breakfast, Lunch, and Supper, 2021
Found photographs and gold thread on hand-dyed linen (dyed with avocado pips)
665 x 810 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Traditions of the Home, 2021
Found photographs, Riso print, and gold vinyl on screen printed archival mounting board
825 x 615 mm Framed

STTAARA STODEL
Flower Patch I, 2021
Flower Patch II, 2021
Found photographs and gold thread on linen
315 x 315 mm Framed

SITAARA STODEL
Misty Cliffs, 2021
Found photographs, gold thread and gold vinyl on linen
715 x 465 mm Framed