Stephanie Beaupark

Stephanie Beaupark is a Ngugi artist-scientist-curator working with textiles and Indigenous eco dyes. Her goal is to contribute towards authentic, respectful Indigenous led knowledge exchange between Indigenous and westernised sciences through creative practice andcuration. She has been studying the materiality, recipes, and chemistry of traditional and contemporary Indigenous art with the aim to create more sustainable and health-conscious alternatives to mainstream artmaking materials. For her PhD research, Beaupark is developing ways for Indigenous science to be valued in physical sciences such as chemistry by aligning scientific research with Indigenous methodology and cultural values through collaborative artmaking.

Beaupark has exhibited her textiles works in group exhibitions Imagined Realities and Ex18 in 2018 at the University of Wollongong as well as the 2019 Vital Signs at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. In 2019, Beaupark worked as an artist in residence for the Living Pavilion project at the University of Melbourne, a trans-disciplinary project that connected Indigenous knowledge, sustainable design, ecological science, and participatory arts. She was the curator of the Ex18 graduate exhibition at the University of Wollongong (2018) and Vital Signs exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre (2019). In 2020 Stephanie simultaneously curated HERE+NOW: A Decolonist Visualisation of The Illawarra at Wollongong Art Gallery and completed her chemistry honours degree at the University of Wollongong as the recipient of the Holt Estate Environmental Science Honours Scholarship. In 2022, Beaupark was appointed Associate Lecturer (Career Development Fellow) at the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities at the University of Wollongong.

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