STEPHEN TIERNEY

Stephen Tierney grew up around the coastal suburbs of Sydney, Australia. He spent his teenage years surfing and skateboarding and was a professional skateboarder during the 1990’s. He graduated design and illustration at Sydney Graphics College in 1996. Now, as a mixed media artist, Tierney works primarily in the technique of paper collage and assemblage. His artworks are strongly influenced by social and political issues, religion, identity and gender stereotypes and definitions.