Stephen Eastaugh

Stephen Eastaugh (born 1960) is an Australian contemporary artist from Melbourne, Australia. He is known for producing semi-abstract, mixed media art, and his work is often informed by his experiences traveling. Career Eastaugh studied at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1979 to 1981. After completing his Bachelors of Fine Art, he began to travel, first to New Zealand and Norway, and since then has not settled anywhere for more than a few months at a time. Since the early 1980s, he has participated in over 100 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. He is represented in many of Australia’s state and national art collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and Parliament House Canberra. In 2012 Eastaugh self-published Unstill Life, a book with a limited-edition of 500 copies, documenting his 30 years of traveling which he wrote over the winter of 2009 at Mawson station in Antarctica. Artistic Style and Influences Each of Eastaugh's semi-abstract, mixed-media artworks tells a story based on his travels, such as passing out after his drink was spiked in Peru (Drugs, 1990). Antarctichinoiserie-scape (2004), for example, was inspired by the rafting sea ice found in Antarctica while reminiscent of depictions of distance in Chinese landscape paintings.