Stephen Scala

Stephen Scala

Is a

Musician, Painter, Chef, Writer.

His mother’s parents were both musicians and he disgraced himself by running off with a member of the local senior citizen’s band. Scala was a classically trained guitarist who spent two years of a music degree until he became seduced by psychoacoustics and realised that his lack of ear would prevent him from finishing his degree. He now specialises in his own form of Gypsy Jazz.

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Grandson of the first woman to attend the Victorian College of the Arts, whose future husband an Italian, also studied there, hence how they met. And how they managed to fall in love because as they say he would have needed a milk crate to make love to her, she was a foot taller than he. She from a wealthy family and he the son of poor immigrants their love took them both out of art school. Stephen Scala studied in Melbourne also at what is now the University of Melbourne and was finished by renowned artist Jacqueline Black in France.

As a chef of thirty years’ experience he was trained by an ex Maxim’s of Paris chef and son of an Algerian freedom fighter and French mother. He worked almost at the top of the pile in London and France for three years. Returning to Australia he did many years volunteering his skills then took to cheese making and charcuterie.

A writer specialising in short stories of the surreal dreamscape of life that expose the human condition in its raw form. The stories are ones easily digestible whilst awaiting the arrival of one’s own faeces in the relaxed atmosphere of one’s own toilet.