Design and Art Australia Online

Tyza Stewart’s work focuses on journeys of identity and gender formation. The work challenges normative expectations and prescriptions, highlighting anxieties largely overlooked in our society. In this work the artist is rendered ambiguously; there is a suggestion of slipping away yet at the same time becoming.

Untitled
2015
Oil on board
185×75 cm

‘GOMA Q’ will profile more than 30 emerging, mid-career and senior artists working with various media. It will reflect and contextualise the dynamic character of Queensland art today, showcasing artists of all generations working across the spectrum of themes and media. ‘GOMA Q’ will challenge expectations and demonstrate, with conviction, the inspired, innovative and inventive.

A solo exhibition of recent works.

Tyza’s practice is a continually evolving self-portrait formed through paintings, digital images and installations. The work deals with the production and perceptions of gendered identity and concurrent social norms. At Boxcopy, Tyza experimented with video-based installation and continue an exploration of self-portraiture through digital mediums.

The project Dense Plant Scenes centred on a video profile of Tyza Stewart’s art practice. As a dense plant scene painter, Tyza Stewart uses the practice to experiment and think about ways the artist is perceived based on physical presence and the impact this has on both the subjectivity of the artist, and the art practice itself.