Steven Bellosguardo is a Melbourne-based sculptor whose practice explores hybrid biomorphic forms that oscillate between the organic and the constructed. His work examines the entanglement of human systems, non-human life and industrial inheritance, unsettling distinctions between the natural and the manufactured, the controlled and the autonomous.
Through processes of fabrication, carving and casting, Bellosguardo transforms materials and techniques to disrupt their expected appearances and associations. Working primarily with hand-formed stainless steel, silicone, bronze, aluminium and wood, he draws on the constraints and possibilities of each to produce forms that resist easy categorisation. Industrial materials take on the gestures of organic growth, while forms that appear to emerge naturally retain traces of deliberate construction. His sculptures develop through a negotiation between intention and material resistance, where labour, chance and intervention complicate the distinction between the constructed and the seemingly autonomous.
Steven Bellosguardo holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of South Australia. He has exhibited nationally, including COMA (Sydney); Sydney Contemporary (Sydney); Gertrude Glasshouse (Melbourne); Melbourne Sculpture Biennale (Melbourne); Airspace Projects (Sydney); FELTspace (Adelaide); TCB (Melbourne); Woollahra Gallery (Sydney); Stockroom Kyneton (Victoria); Fontanelle (Adelaide). His work is held in both public and private collections nationally and internationally.