Stuart Ringholt (Perth, Australia,1971) lives and works in Melbourne. Ringholt’s artistic practice takes many forms including performance, video, drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, writing and collaborative workshops. Ringholt’s work investigates a diverse range of ideas and approaches: for instance, his monumental clock sculptures are best described as thought machines whereby speculative physics is used to consider present and deep time. His participatory works such as his well-celebrated Anger Workshops (2008) and popular naturist tours (2011) investigate the concept of ‘education through feeling’. The public sculpture Signpost (2007) displaying a set of human emotions was recently installed at a Brooklyn middle school to encourage emotional literacy in young people. The small collage works with their minor but impactful alterations to found images span two decades of practice. His most recent collage works use a new and experimental expressionism to increase the scale of the work and were nominated by a critic as a 2024 cultural highlight.

Stuart Ringholt has shown work in major national and international forums including Aichi Triennale (2019), Performa 15, (2015), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), Adelaide Biennial (2010), Singapore Biennale (2011), TarraWarra Biennial (2008) and Sydney Biennale (2008). His work has been profiled in major art publications including Artforum, Frieze, Art & Australia, Vault and Art Asia Pacific, and in newspapers The New York Times, The Guardian and La Republica. Ringholt has authored two books: Hashish Psychosis: What it’s Like to be Mentally Ill and Recover (2006) and his doctoral thesis A Problem Smile: Workshops, Tours and Discos (2018).