Shannon Toth (b.1992) is an artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Their practice explores how the futility of solidity complicates gender and power dynamics. Embodied experience enters a feedback loop with the disciplines of confectionery and woodworking to heat, steam, bend and vibrate materials to create the conditions for polymorphous possibilities. Simmering with temporal tension, the works evoke the body casting it’s form as malleable matter.
Toth completed a Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) from Queensland University of Technology in 2016. In 2019 they began a Bachelor of Fine Art at QUT. They moved to Melbourne in 2021. In 2023 they graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) (First Class Honours) from the Univeristy of Melbourne. They were the recipient of the Kate Daw Prize (2021) and the Majlis Travelling Scholarship (2022).
My arts practice takes place on what always was and always will be Aboriginal land. As a resident of Naarm, I’d like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurring peoples of the Kulin Nations. I pay my respects to elders past, present and emerging, and to all First Peoples.
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