Stella Haycock is a contemporary Meanjin-based artist exploring the abstraction and manipulation of alphabetic forms, pulling apart depictions of the written word in contemplation of line, form and space. Through printmaking, painting, and installation she questions the conventions of reading and writing and highlights the potential for depicting alphabetic letterforms as individual entities. She repositions the focus on letterforms as characters, rather than maintaining the culturally embedded apathy to material language. Haycock seeks to create space for the viewer to engage with each form as an entity of movement, shape, gesture and detail.

They completed their BFA (Printmaking) at the Queensland College of Art in 2022. Haycock’s work has been exhibited across various Queensland institutions, including the University of the Sunshine Coast and the Queensland College of the Art, and is included in the collections of the Queensland State Library and the Griffith University Art Museum.