Stephen Burstow is a Sydney-based visual artist + filmmaker.
As a director he has specialised in performing arts projects for film, television and digital media. His dance films have been awarded internationally.
His PhD research investigated the circulation of images of people on smartphones and tablets, through historical parallels (the nineteenth-century carte de visite photographic portrait and the sixteenth-century portrait miniature) and contemporary contexts. The twenty-first-century engagement with handheld screen devices was explored through the insinuation of these screens into the most intimate domestic space: the shared bed.
Education
2018
Doctor of Philosophy Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1982
Diploma of Arts in Film and Television Direction, Australian Film, Television and Radio School
1979
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) University of Queensland
Exhibitions & Screenings from 2015
2020
Head On Photography Festival. Solo exhibitions:
2018
Cinematheque: Contemporary Work for the Screen dLux Media Arts
Postgraduate Degree Exhibition Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
2017
USU Awards Finalists Exhibition Verge Gallery, Sydney
Curatorial Lab Exhibition Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
Corporeal: the presence and absence Verge Gallery, Sydney
2016
Re:Cinema Sydney Underground Film Festival
USU Awards Finalists Exhibition Verge Gallery, Sydney
2015
Perfect Strangers 55Sydenham, Sydney.
Virtually Pop College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, N.Z. Curators Julieanna Preston & Adam Geczy
Graduate School Exhibition Sydney College of the Arts Gallery
Publications
2019
Screens in bed: visual art, sleep and handheld screen devices Visual Studies, 34:1.
2018
The Handheld Image: Art, History and Embodiment
PhD Thesis, University of Sydney.
2017
This Face, Here, Now: Moving Image Portraiture
Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, 2:1.
2016
The Carte de Visite and Domestic Digital Photography
Photographies, 9:3.
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