Gayle Stockley
About Gayle Stockley
Gayle Stockley moved to Wamboin, near Canberra in the early 90s where she currently lives and has a studio. She also spends time at Wapengo on the NSW South Coast.
“I trained as a painter but have been drawn to the direct working processes of drawing and hands-on physicality of Sculpture,” says Gayle.
Gayle’s painting style developed after a seven year period making relief sculpture using bush-fire blackened casuarina. She returned to painting in 2015 and continued to work with simple, geometric, abstract composition with the addition of colour.
A trip to San Francisco and New York in 2019 (seeing the artwork of many artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Imi Knoebel and Brancusi) was a source of inspiration and gave clarity to Gayle’s artistic direction.
Gayle Stockley CV
Bio: (b.1952) Moved to Wamboin early 90’s where currently live and have a studio. Also spend time at Wapengo on the south coast of NSW.
2008-2015: used bushfire-blackened casuarina saplings to construct simple, geometric, relief sculpture.
Current work: From 2015 returned to oil painting (abstract, non-objective), use of similar linear composition continues on plywood, re-purposed core-door and canvas. Layers of pure, sometimes opposite colour create a textural surface evocative of the bush landscape but the play between line, form and space is my focus.
EDUCATION:
Canberra School of Art (ANU), Associate Diploma of Visual Arts, 1988
Melbourne State College, Diploma of Education, Visual Arts, 1981
Western Australian Institute of Technology (Curtin Uni), Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1979
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 TheOtherArtFairSYD, The Cut
2022 The 42nd Alice Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT
2022 Sculpture Bermagui, NSW
2021 East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, Vic - ‘EGAG Wrap 2021 Small Artwork Prize’
2021 Capital Culture House, Madrid, Spain - ‘Eternity’ virtual group exhibition
2021 Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT - ‘Interwoven 5’ group exhibition
2021 Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Vic Small Works Art Prize
2020 Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW - ‘Interwoven’ group exhibition
2020 Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, NSW - selected artists (cancelled due to bushfires)
2019 Bermagui Artspace - solo exhibition
2018 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery - GRAG Art prize - finalist
2017 Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Art Award - finalist
2016 Local Press cafe, Kingston, ACT - solo exhibition
2014 Inaugural Clearwater Sculpture Prize, Queanbeyan
2013 Two Fires Festival of Arts group exhibition, Braidwood, NSW
2013 Sculpture on the Edge, Bermagui, NSW
2012 Sculpture on the Edge, Bermagui, NSW
2012 ‘Lines & Circles’, Ilios Gallery, Hackett, ACT - 2 person exhibition
2011 Sculpture on the Edge, Bermagui, NSW
2010 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, GRAG Art Prize 2009. Winners show
2010 Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, SHRAG Drawing Prize - finalist
2009 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, GRAG Art Prize - winner
2008 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, GRAG Art Prize - finalist
2004 Canberra Art Prize, finalist
2004 Cork Street Gallery, Gundaroo, NSW ‘cut-outs & drawings’ - solo exhibition
2001 ANCA Gallery, Dickson, ACT - 3 person exhibition
AWARD: 2009 Joint 3D winner, Goulburn Regional Art Prize (judges Helen Maxwell & Ben Quilty)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1986-1998 after school art classes at 5 primary schools in ACT and Bungendore, NSW
1981-1986 art teacher at high schools in Victoria and ACT