Steph Bouris

Bachelor of Visual Arts
Glass

"Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag?" American pop star Katy Perry asked the artist this question via the speaker system of a Franklins supermarket in 2010.

Like A Plastic Bag is a series of hand-blown objects inspired by the form of the once ubiquitous grey plastic shopping bag, sandblasted with the design of the defunct-since-2014 Australian supermarket Franklins' plastic bags, based on a genuine artifact.

A spotlight projects the ghost of this recently vanished era onto the wall behind- gone like a plastic bag in the wind.

Steph Bouris, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

Steph Bouris, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

Steph Bouris, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

Steph Bouris, New Contemporaries, 2024, installation Photo: Document Photography

(do you ever feel) Like A Plastic Bag, 2024, Hand-blown Glass

(do you ever feel) Like A Plastic Bag, 2024, Hand-blown Glass

Steph Bouris is fixated on everything discontinued, abandoned, and closed forever. Steph is learning the trade of blowing glass, working with its intrinsic material and temporal qualities to honour forgotten artifacts of a recent past. Learning and working on Gadigal land.