Belle Stewart is a media producer, educator and photographer with a three-decade career spanning film, visual arts and creative education advocacy.

Belle relocated to the UK soon after graduating with a Masters in Media Studies (RMIT University) landing her dream job with Bristol’s eponymous Watershed Media. The progressive, experimental digital culture at The Watershed inspired Belle to develop her own unique multidisciplinary production technique across creative direction, production, stills photography and film narrative.

Refining her passion for teaching photography and styling at RMIT University and LCI Melbourne, Belle leveraged her mentoring exptertise to co-found Triple Axel with film maker Tony Rogers

Belle’s teaching approach sits at the intersection of production, media advocacy and education - utilising a structured mentorship approach to quickly identify and develop emerging talent - providing one to one supervision and long term ongoing career support in many cases.

Belle is constantly inspired by the next generation of media industry storytellers - in a circular economy of knowledge exchange - bringing further insight into contemporary behaviour, pop culture engagement and value-driven storytelling trends.

This proximity to younger creators informs Belle’s understanding of shifting patterns, demand for authenticity, intersectional narratives, female-centred perspectives and intergenerational dialogue.

Her ongoing photographic series Bodies of Water explores the poetry of her ancestors in a dream-state female driven narrative that connects generations of women in Belle’s family.

Belle descends from a long lineage of Irish - Australian published writers, journalists, film & media industry pioneers - grounding her practice in questions of authorship, cultural responsibility and legacy.

Belle builds and collaborates on projects that are creatively ambitious, socially resonant and strategically positioned within Australia’s evolving screen and media landscape.