Stuart J Young – Visual Artist
Stuart J Young explores form, colour, and structure through painting and sculpture, creating works that examine the interplay between material, space, and perception.
His practice investigates how objects and surfaces hold tension, rhythm, and narrative, inviting viewers to experience both presence and process in the artwork itself.
Stuart’s work is informed by an interest in collaborative dialogue and site-responsive projects, including joint explorations with Eila Goldhahn that engage movement, photography, and immersive installation.
Sculpture
This series of work, Tenuous, began in Germany some ten years ago. The sculptures are slender and fine and embody an almost immaterial quality of being and relating. There is an uneasy movement and inscription of space, as though their bodies make the air around them tremble, perhaps from being pierced.
Tenuous tabletop-sized sculptures is made from papermache and formally explores movement and tension between two or three lines or abstracted figures. They are informed by observations of plants, animals and humans in relational, somatic, gestural interactions There is something vulnerable about these works as they allude to fragility and temporality, perhaps to an impending demise. Tenuous has been envisaged as models for life-size sculptures or utopian architectures. They compliment still points in installations of Goldhahn’s MoverWitness dance films.