Iam a contemporary artist & dancer, principally exploring an alternative aesthetic to the traditional and Romantic landscape, whilst also exploring the potentials for art and dance to coalesce. The landscapes I create in art and dance reflect the horizons within; an intimate sublime for a time when wilderness is perhaps uninhabitable.
I construct dance works with a process of building and refining with collaborators, aiming for a new whole to emerge into a 3D landscape, expressing the individual and group voice.
I am currently the director of Tremendum dance show & previously represented by OTOMYS.
Chosen twice as a finalist for The Bowness Photography prize, Monash Gallery of art. In 2025 Scarlatti and the View was selected as a part of the Turner and Australia exhibition, Gippsland Art Gallery.
I hold a B/Ed from University of Melbourne/ VCA, and trained in Gaga (Batsheva Dance Company), Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin, Anne O ‘Keeffe, Al Wunder, contact improv, & Five Rhythms.
‘Stuart’s Scarlatti and the View, named after the eighteenth-century Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti who has also influenced her, is unsurprisingly a symphony of light and shade, of dramatic tonal contrasts in which a rocky foreshore is silhouetted against a brilliant burst of light. Colours, tones and forms are all carefully calibrated to exact maximum emotional impact, drawing us into its Turnerian web. Szilagyi’s ‘film noir’ sensibility is present, but so too is an amplified relationship to the emotive power of music - we can almost hear the booming bass drums and crashing cymbals against the sweeping string section’.
Simon Gregg, Turner & Australia.
