Longlisted for the 2013 Stella Prize
An Opening – Stephanie Radok
Nonfiction · Wakefield Press
About the book
Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective. For over twenty years she has written about and witnessed the emergence of contemporary Aboriginal art and the responses of Australian art to global diasporas.
In An Opening: Twelve love stories about art, Stephanie Radok takes us on a walk with her dog and finds that it is possible to re-imagine the suburb as the site of epiphanies and attachments.
“Artist and writer Stephanie Radok possesses a unique international perspective.”
– 2013 Stella Prize
About the author
Stephanie Radok
Born in Melbourne, Stephanie Radok has worked in Adelaide as an artist, freelance visual art writer and editor since 1988. For over twenty years, she has written reviews and criticism for The Adelaide Review, Artlink, Art Monthly and other magazines. In 2011 a survey exhibition of her artwork The Sublingual Museum was shown at Flinders University City Gallery.
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