About

I am a multi-modal artist working across sculpture and movement, installation and performance, community arts and solo practice. My work is influenced by found materials, enabling the stories that wish to be told to unfold naturally.

Trained at John Bolton Theatre School and the Victorian College of the Arts in Animateuring, I have created work for major festivals including UNIMA International Puppetry Festival, Melbourne Festival, and Melbourne Fringe. I regularly perform with the internationally renowned Polyglot Children’s Theatre and have directed large-scale community events, installations and parades across Australia, Europe and New Zealand.

My community arts practice and installation works develop in parallel, each informing the other. The themes explored with Whittlesea communities following the 2009 bushfires in the INTO THE LIGHT project are reflected throughout my installation series including Resting Places Lost and Found, Forest, Village, and Nest. I was a founding member of Basel’s mask street theatre troupe Endangered Species and the roving puppetry duo Emu Nomads.

After twenty years creating in Australia, I returned to New Zealand in 2021 and am slowly reacquainting myself with my homeland. In 2022, I was runner-up in the Kumeu Arts Awards with Woven Landscapes—vessels woven from materials inherited from my sister that speak to connection, loss, and transformation.

My goal is to continue exploring creative ways to connect with, express, and engage with the community, environment, and landscape in which I live.

For more information: Stefanie Robinson Resume