Stoutzkers body of work is centered upon the metaphor, people as or like rocks. Each work is an iteration of this idea, a mediation between geological deep time and human experience, which evolves in its own direction based on an interplay of form in negative space.
‘My painting metaphors allow me to rethink anthropocentric narratives of being in time that cannot be authenticated but suggested, I’ve found fresh perspectives from a geological deep past.’
Stoutzker is Interested in reducing a landscape to its fundamentals and her figures are often situated in flat and unidentifiable spaces which evade a sense of place.
Underlying the subject of all Stoutzker's work is her interest in process, the artist views her paintings as aesthetic questions and answers which examine the ways in which we create knowledge and arrive at truth. Through approaching a concept visually a certain logic evolves that differs from other spaces, a dialectics of form, which she finds constantly intriguing.
‘I play with visual symbols and see where they lead.’