Stephen Burstow is a Sydney-based visual artist, lecturer and 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 recent 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.
His current research is focused on the somatic and societal impacts of heat stress.
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
Group Exhibitions & Screenings from 2015
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 Curator Conseulo Cavaniglia
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
Self-authored Publications
2018
2017
2016