Deborah Stone

Recently completed an MA in Fine Art Photography at Wolverhampton University.
Exploring Memory and association through object and environment. Intimate and Monumental.
Dreams , anticipation and the real.

Born Australia, Lived in USA for 5 years Washington D.C. and N.Y.C. and London for 10 before moving to the midlands.
Favorite artists include Duchamp, ManRay, Rodchenko, Susan Hiller,Joseph Cornell, Barnett Newman, Cartier Bresson, Bauhaus, Sarah Moon, Tintoretto, Simone Martini, Leonardo
Love travel, archeology, history, reading and the 4th Dimension.

My work explores interpretation of objects, places and events. How we perceive what is occurring around us dictated by our sociological, economic, cultural and historic background. The definition of language and the significance of the everyday ritual, can be both familiar and foreign, frightening and entertaining, grotesque and beautiful. Finding objects I query how they could be perceived in 100s of years to come if discovered in an archeological dig, what purposes may be assigned to them from a world that no longer exists. I consider what we say of past cultures and imagine what they will say of us.
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1977-1982 Killara High School. Sydney, Australia.
High School Certificate.
1983-1987 The George Washington University. Washington, D.C. U.S.A.
Bachelor of Arts - Education and Human Development
Major: Secondary Education. Minors: Fine Arts; Art History.
1986 Smithsonian Institute. Washington, D.C. U.S.A
Certificate - Museum Careers
1989-1990 Australian Centre of Photography. Sydney, Australia.
Photo II; Photo III; Hand colouring; Photomontage.
1990-1992 National Art School. (I.T.S.) Sydney, Australia.Certificate - Painting
1991 National Art School. (A.N.U.) Canberra, Australia.Certificate - Book Making
1998 Central St Martins. London, UK.
Dali Course – Scriptwriting
1998-1999 Westminster College. London, UK.
NSFE – Video Production Techniques.
1999 Westminster College. London, UK
PhotoShop for Apple Macs
2000 Central St Martins. London, UK
Dali Courses- Animation. Web Design.

2014- MA Exhibition- Wolverhampton Art Gallery
2014- Junction Festival- Wolverhampton Art gallery and Chapel Ash
2013- The Edge. Much Wenlock
2013- Chapel Ash. Dungeness.
2012- Intra. Wolverhampton