Steve Lopes Encountered

Steve Lopes is an artist who finds himself at once both everywhere, and nowhere. An inveterate traveller since his youth, his insatiable curiosity for new experiences drives his art and desire to tell stories, connecting the threads of history and place with the people who have shaped them.

Lopes grew up in Sydney with parents who migrated from the Aeolian Islands, a small rocky archipelago north of Sicily, before he was born. Like