Jacqui Stockdale


Jacqui Stockdale is an Australian contemporary artist known for exploration of theatrical portraiture, mortality, folklore and masquerade, crossing boundaries between painting, photography, drawing, collage and performance. She explores the diversity of humanity in works that mask and unmask cultural mores, belief systems, rituals and identity. Stockdale has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally and her works are held in major galleries in Australia and around the world. In 2012, she won the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize. In 2014, her work featured in exhibitions at the Louvre, Paris, and Museum Villa Rot, Germany.
Stockdale lives and works in Narrm/Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Early life and education

Stockdale was born in 1968, in Narrm/Melbourne, Victoria and grew up in the regional town of Benalla, North East Victoria. Stockdale obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts, majoring in Painting, Melbourne in 1990 and completed a Post-graduate Diploma in Video Art at the Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart.

Exhibitions

Stockdale has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally. Since 1991 Stockdale has held 34 solo exhibitions and over 100 group exhibitions.
In Australia, Stockdale has exhibited in a range of institutions including: Art Gallery of Ballarat, Art Gallery of South Australia, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Benalla Art Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Judith Wright Arts Centre, Linden New Art in Melbourne, Museum of Australian Photography, Museum of Old and New Art, National Portrait Gallery (Australia), Nets Victoria, Newcastle Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, Sydney Contemporary, Tweed Regional Gallery, University of Queensland Art Museum
Stockdale has exhibited in a range of commercial galleries including: Helen Gory Gallerie — Melbourne,
Melbourne Art Fair, Olsen Gallery — Sydney,
Spring 1883 - Melbourne, ThisIsNoFantasy — Melbourne,
Woods St Gallery — Darwin.
Internationally she has exhibited in:
  • Antarisuite Cintermex, Monterrey — Mexico
  • Art Basel - Hong Kong
  • Cape Town Art Fair— South Africa
  • Fotofever — Paris
  • Louvre - Paris
  • Museum Villa Rot - Germany
  • Switzerland

Awards and recognition

Stockdale's work has been included in many award exhibitions and she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including:

Residencies

Stockdale has undertaken residencies in Spain, Mexico, and NSW.

Collections