Steven Bellosguardo

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)

I walk my neighbourhood most days as a form of catharsis. Each time I take a new route, keeping an eye out for discarded materials and collecting as I go. When I was a child my parents manufactured sandstone garden products, transforming raw materials into solid forms. I emulate this process with neighbourhood detritus, creating sculptures using DIY construction methods common in alternative and sustainable architecture. Recontextualised, these found materials are given new purpose as anthropomorphic and architectural hybrids – a temporal monument to a time and place.

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Steven Bellosguardo, Paradiso, Wet Look (874), Paradiso: Render, acrylic, wire, cotton, rebar, acrylic paint - Wet Look (874): Render, acrylic, cotton, oxide, 'slippery when wet' sign, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Steven Bellosguardo, Installation View, Various Materials, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Steven Bellosguardo, Comic Sands, Render, acrylic, wire, hessian, oxide, lectern, table leg, pool net, foam roller, floaties, steel, 2021.

Steven Bellosguardo, Ice Clean, Render, acrylic, wire, hessian, oxide, laundry trolley, esky, vacuum head, table leg, 2021.

Steven Bellosguardo, Basket Case, Render, acrylic, wire, hessian, oxide, wardrobe basket, partial hammock frame, steel, 2021.

Steven Bellosguardo, Smoko, Render, acrylic, wire, hessian, oxide, milk crate, bucket, coffee table, wood, steel, 2021.

Steven Bellosguardo, Birdbath in Space, Concrete (37°47'49.8"S 144°59'43.1"E), steel (37°47'50.5"S 144°59'42.1"E), wood (37°47'49.3"S 144°59'42.6"E), organic matter (37°47'46.4"S 144°59'57.7"E), hub cap (37°47'44.3"S 145°00'03.9"E), road reflector (37°47'42.1"S 145°00'03.2"E), wire (37°47'46.7"S 144°59'43.2"E), water (37°47'25.0"S 145°00'25.3"E), detritus (37°47'41.7"S 144°59'49.2"E), 2021.

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We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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