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Stevie Dix (b. 1990, Belgium.) is a Belgian artist currently living and working in Genk. Her oils on canvas are heavy and thick, composed in a personal language where figures and symbols are metaphors for intimate feelings and, at times, political perspectives. Having spent most of her adult life living in the UK, her work often looks back to a period of late adolescence spent in Belgium. She did not complete any formal art education, but growing up in a household of artists, she doesn’t identify with the term ‘self-taught’. Feeling ‘stuck’ in a small, forgotten, ex-industrial town known mainly for football, she spent a lot of her days in her mother’s studio learning to sew costumes and to draw and paint. By translating introspection into a coming-of-age theme, she aims to hit a universal nerve. As main influences she cites the Belgian Surrealists, the Chicago Imagists, American animator Suzan Pitt and German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon.

Her work is part of the Portland Museum of Art, Maine has acquired Stevie Dix’s Back in the House, 2022 as a gift from the Alex Katz Foundation.