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AboutOli Stephens is an Australian designer working across objects, installations and systems. His practice explores how designed frameworks can create conditions for less predetermined outcomes. 

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Maastricht  / Australia2026

AboutOli Stephens is an Australian designer working across objects, installations and systems. His practice explores how designed frameworks can shape processes, while creating conditions for organic outcomes in how things are made, used and inhabited. Research, experimentation and making are used as modes of inquiry, with ideas developed through a repeated process of rapid testing, documenting and reflecting. 

He completed a Bachelor of Design at the Australian National University in 2026 and is currently based in Maastricht, working with furniture designer Valentin Loellmann.



Selected  Selected ExperienceValentin Loellmann    ( Furniture Maker    .    Maastricht    2026 - present )
Ashley Eriksmoen    ( Studio Assistant    .    Canberra    2026 )
Friends & Associates    ( 100 Lights Exhibition Installation    .    Melbourne    2025 )
SomoS Arts    ( Curatorial & Design Intern    .    Berlin    2024 - 2025 )
Lisa Cahill    (Designer & Studio Assistant    .    Canberra    2023 - 2026 )

EducationBachelor of Design    ( Australian National University    .    completed 2026 )

Software
Adobe Suite    .    Fusion    .    Rhino    .    ArcGIS

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OLI STEPHENS    .    2026