CONCEPTUAL ARTIST
- Yvette Stride is an Australian artist and educator, currently living and working in Beijing China, teaching Art at the International School of Beijing (ISB).
- She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art from Queensland University of Technology, and a Master’s in Education (Arts) from Southern Cross University, as well as a Master Scuba Diver Instructor certification with the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), working for many years as an instructor and underwater videographer.
- Yvette’s work is both a quest for knowledge and a yearning for deeper states of wisdom through the metaphorical concept of a pelagic state. Her Trickle Divide subset of works, critique the authenticity and complexities associated with our private and public channels of communication, exploring the tension between knowledge and intuition. While her City Scuba artworks investigating how the mystical side of life manifests into reality through intuitive and emotional forces tempered with resilience.
- Intersections of dreamworlds, the natural world and the underwater world morph into reality in her whimsical art works. Yvette strives to maintain a creative state by nurturing her artistic sensitivities through her studio work, teaching discipline and contemplative practices.
- Email: yvette_stride@yahoo.com
- 伊薇特·斯特里德是一位澳大利亚艺术家兼教育工作者，现居中国北京，任教于北京国际学校（ISB）担任美术教师。
- 她拥有昆士兰科技大学美术学士学位、南十字星大学教育学（艺术方向）硕士学位，并持有专业潜水教练协会（PADI）认证的潜水长教练资格，曾多年担任潜水教练及水下摄像师。
- 伊薇特的创作既是知识的探索，亦是对通过“远洋状态”隐喻概念追求更深层智慧境界的渴望。其《滴水分界》系列作品批判了私人与公共沟通渠道的真实性与复杂性，探索知识与直觉间的张力。其《都市潜水》系列则探究生命神秘面如何通过直觉与情感力量
——经由韧性淬炼——显现于现实。 - 梦境、自然与水下世界的交汇在她奇幻的作品中化作现实。伊薇特通过工作室创作、教学实践与冥想修行滋养艺术感知力，以维持持续的创作状态
- Yvette Stride is a passionate and openminded artist whose practice demonstrates deep cultural sensitivity. Drawing on her personal experiences, she creates works that resonate across different contexts—for example, transforming a photograph of herself diving into the ocean in Australia into an installation vest that she later reimagined in dialogue with the plants of West Mount in Beijing. Through such gestures, she builds bridges between cultures and highlights shared human emotions. As a curator, I have greatly enjoyed working with Yvett; she brings energy, thoughtfulness, and sincerity to every project, and she engages audiences with genuine enthusiasm and care.
—— Curator Lijun Chen
- 伊薇特·斯特莱德是一位富有激情、思想开明的艺术家，她的实践展现了深厚的文化敏感性。她从个人经验中汲取灵感，创作出能在不同文化语境中引发共鸣的作品——例如，她将一张自己在澳大利亚潜入大海的照片，转化为一件装置艺术背心，随后又在北京西山的植物环境中，赋予其新的对话与想象。通过这样的艺术手法，她在不同文化之间架起桥梁，并凸显人类共通的感情。作为曾与她共事的策展人，我十分欣赏伊薇特；她为每个项目都带来活力、周密的思考与真诚，并以真挚的热情和关怀与观众建立联系。
—— 策展人 陈立军
Yvette Stride’s work The Sleeping Scholar at the Valley Village Land Art Festival is truly a masterful installation piece that integrates environmental consciousness with cultural depth.
She creatively repurposed old wooden railway sleepers, demonstrating a strong commitment to sustainable art materials. Meticulously carved into figures resembling scholarly forms, one of the sculptures was ingeniously designed as a Maypole, adorned with ribbons at the top to invite viewer interaction—a testament to her refined attention to detail.
Throughout the creative process, Yvette personally immersed herself in the work, weaving together Australian cultural respect for nature and tradition with the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival themes of reunion and gratitude. At the same time, she incorporated a critique of modern education, questioning the dominance of rational, linear, and logical thinking while calling for a return to natural wisdom. The resulting piece is powerfully impactful.
— Qiu Tian, Chief Curator of the China Land Art Festival and Sculptor
Yvette Stride在谷山村大地艺术节上的作品《“沉睡的学者”》确实是一件融合了环保理念与文化内涵的装置艺术佳作。
她以旧木制铁路枕木为原料，这种对废旧材料的再利用体现了环保艺术材料的运用。在设计上，她将这些枕木精心雕刻成类似人类学者的形象，其中一个还被设计成五朔节花柱的形 式，顶部装饰有丝带，供观众互动，细节处理十分到位。在创作过程中，Yvette Stride亲力亲为，将澳洲文化中对自然和传统的尊重与中国传统文化中中秋节团圆、感恩的元素相结合，同时还融入了对现代教育的思考，质疑了理性、线性、逻辑思维的本质，呼吁回归自然智慧，最终呈现出的作品具有强烈的震撼力。
——中国大地艺术节总策展人雕塑家邱天
