Shannon Toth (b. 1992)
Combining the disciplines of engineering and confectionary, they reconfigure the familiar to explore the tension between scarcity and excess. Embodied experience informs their process as they heat, bend and wear down materials to uncover transformative conditions for the performative stickiness of the works.
Shannon 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).
As a Hungarian, Swedish and Irish settler born on Gubbi Gubbi country, I’d like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the waterways, land and sky that raised me. 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.
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