STIRLING CAIULO

Exhibition Dates : 26 August - 7 September 2025
Opening Reception : Wed 27 August 2025, 6:00 - 8:30pm

‘A Rip In the Möbius Strip’

Stirling Caiulo creates paintings as sites of psychic and embodied transformation. His work is raw, symbolic, and rooted in a desire to fortify the spirit, exploring what it means to reclaim form from fragmentation, both personal and collective. With a deep curiosity for the unseen, his practice invites viewers to contemplate the meeting of the material and the mystical. Each piece acts as a threshold, a passage through which the fractured self might encounter wholeness, mystery, and renewal.

He has been a finalist in prestigious competitions, including the Lester Prize in both 2021 and 2022 and in 2023 the Bluethumb Portrait Prize and the Dean Cogle Prize. 

This work begins where continuity breaks: 

at the rip in the Möbius strip. 


A symbol of infinite loop and paradox, 

the Möbius strip forms a twisted surface without end. 


In its seamlessness lies a trap: 

an illusion of progress that circles back on itself. 


By tearing this loop, 

I explore what happens when we interrupt familiar cycles: 

of thought, identity, and inherited limitation. 

The rupture is both violent and liberating. 


To see oneself anew requires discomfort, 

and something new to hold sacred.