Richard Stipl

Working initially as a painter, Stipl has recently turned to making sculpture. Using himself as a model, Richard focuses exhaustively on the indefinite nature and moment-to-moment paradoxes inherent in the act of continuously recreating oneself throughout the course of a lifetime. Characteristically, Stipl’s paintings and sculptural works alike force us to reconsider the role of boundaries and consequent categories of choice that comprise contemporary attitudes and approaches to art-making and art-consumption.

Richard Stipl, 2002, Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart, oil paint, clay, metal bracket, 20 units 10 x 5 x 5cm ea