Veiled Reflections by Elise Stanley 2025

when: 15 - 31 August 2025 | venue: Platform | cost: See event for details | address: 19 Furneaux Street Forrest 2603 | website: https://canberracontemporary.com.au

published: 19 Aug 2025, 5 min read

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Veiled Reflections is an introspective exhibition by early-career artist Elise Stanley and includes a series of drawings and screen prints exploring the tension between fragility and strength visibility and concealment. Centring on self-portraiture Elise reflects on evolving perceptions of the fat female body shaped by lived experience and personal memory. This body of work continues her broader exploration of femininity vulnerability and autonomy through printmaking and drawing.

The works depict the artist in both recognisable and obscured forms. Handwritten text becomes an extension of voice — raw emotional and intimate — evoking moments of tenderness defiance and self-assertion.
Paper functions as more than a substrate; it becomes a metaphor for skin in its physical capabilities to be torn smoothed marked and reclaimed. The use of screen printing with its layering repetition and transparency further reinforces the work's themes of presence erasure and embodied memory.

In challenging dominant narratives around the body "Veiled Reflections" reclaims space for softness scale and self-representation outside of normative ideals. Through materially sensitive and emotionally honest processes the artist's body — veiled mutable and powerful — is witnessed on its own terms.

Image credit: Elise Stanley "In Motion #6" 2025 CMYK Screenprint 112 x 76cm photo courtesy the artist"

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Veiled Reflections by Elise Stanley 2025 is on 15 - 31 August 2025. The opening hours are: See event website for details. Conveniently located in Forrest. Call 02 6247 0188 for details. Visit their website at https://canberracontemporary.com.au.

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what: Veiled Reflections by Elise Stanley 2025
when: 15 - 31 August 2025
start time/end time: See event website for details
venue: Platform
phone: 02 6247 0188
city/suburb: Forrest ACT

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