Curriculum Vitae

Born: 1968

1990 Bachelor of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts

1993 Graduate Diploma, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania

  • 2024 Angel at my Table, Melbourne Art Fair, VIC

    2023 The Yellow Room, Backwoods Gallery, VIC

    2023 The Offering, (survey show) Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

    2022 The Outlaws’ Inn, Benalla Art Gallery, VIC

    2022 Formidable Females, Judith Wright Contemporary Centre for the Arts, Brisbane, QLD

    2022 Paper Doll, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW

    2021 My Funny Valentine, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW

    2020 The Long Shot, Linden New Art, VIC

    2019 All the Rivers Run, Olsen Gallery, NSW

    2018 Ghost Hoovanah, ThisIsNoFantasy, VIC

    2018 Todays/Tomorrow, Cape Town Art Fair, South Africa 

    2016 Familija, (survey show) Benalla Art Gallery, VIC

    2016 The Boho, ThisIsNoFantasy, VIC

    2015 Drawing the Labyrinth, NETS touring exhibition, VIC

    2014 Super Naturale, ThisIsNoFantasy, VIC

    2012 The Quiet Wild, Helen Gory Gallerie, VIC

    2011 Papercuts and Bloodlines, Venn Gallery, Perth, WA

    2010 Strange Archipelago, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC

    2009 Rolling Heads, Watch this Space, AliceSprings, NT 

    2008 Some Kind of Coyote, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne, VIC 

    2007 Circo, Antarisuite Cintermex, Monterrey, Mexico

    2007 Headland, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne, VIC

    2007 Nature and the Beast, Despard Gallery, Hobart, TAS

    2005 Familija, Despard Gallery, TAS

    2005 Familija, Chapman and Bailey, Melbourn, VIC

    2004 Shooting the Picturesque, Chapman and Bailey, Abbottsford, VIC

    2003 Body land, Woods St Gallery, Darwin, NT

    2001 The White Horse Darkly, Woods St Gallery, Darwin, NT

    2000 Into the Light, Access Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW

    1998 Harem, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide,SA

    1998 Alive on the Inside, TAP Gallery, Sydney,NSW

    1997 Sleight of Hand, Sidespace Gallery, Hobart, TAS

    1996 A Study from Life, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS

    1995 Queen Victoria’s Second Coming, ARDT Gallery, Sydney, NSW

    1991 I Waited 40 Days, South Hedland Gallery, Pilbara, NT

  • 2024 Horse Girl Energy, Latrobe Regional Gallery, VIC

    2024 Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum, VIC

    2023 Spring 1883, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, VIC

    2023 Olive Cotton Award, Tweed Regional Gallery

    2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, NSW

    2023 Beating About the Bush, Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC

    2022 Omnia Prize, Melbourne, VIC

    2021 Corpus Tempus, Plimsol Gallery, TAS

    2021 Square of Sunlight, Backwoods Gallery, VIC

    2021 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, NSW

    2021 Olive Cotton Award, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

    2021 Salon Des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, NSW

    2020 NWOP, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC

    2019 The Bowness, MGA, VIC

    2019 Lyn McRae Drawing Prize, VIC

    2019 R&M McGivern Prize, Maroondah City Council, VIC

    2019 Lyn Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Gallery, VIC

    2019 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, NSW

    2018 Let There Be Rock, HOTA, QLD

    2018 Beyond Reason, QUT Art Museum, QLD

    2018 The 1818 Project, Newcastle Gallery, NSW

    2018 20/20 National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT See film

    2018 This Wild Song, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, NSW

    2018 The Blake Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW

    2018 National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Gallery, ACT

    2018 Join the Dots, Sydney Opera House and Art Museum and Library, Ota (Japan)

    2017 Imagined Worlds, Glen Eira Gallery, VIC

    2017 Dark Contrasts, Hawthorn Town Hall Gallery, VIC

    2017 Taking the Myth, The Lost Ones, Ballarat, VIC

    2017 Romancing the Skull, Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC

    2017 Fotofever, Paris, France

    2017 Sydney Contemporary, NSW

    2017 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, (finalist), Caloundra Regional Gallery, QLD

    2017 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed Regional Gallery, QLD 

    2017 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize (finalist), Ballarat International Foto Biennale, VIC

    2017 Artist Profile: Australian Painters 2007-2017, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW

    2017 All Dressed Up!, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW

    2017 Dark Contrasts, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

    2017 Imagined Worlds, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne, VIC

    2017 Taking the Myth, The Lost Ones, Ballarat, VIC

    2017 Artist Profile: Australian Painters: 2007 -2017, Orange Regional Gallery

    2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Magic Object, Art Gallery of South Australia

    2015 Drawing The Labyrinth, touring exhibition, NETS

    2015 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC

    2015 Sydney Contemporary, THIS IS NO FANTASY

    2014 Novacastria, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

    2014 Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC

    2014 Alles Masquerade, Museum Villa Rot, Germany

    2014 National Self-Portrait Prize, UQM, QLD

    2014 Seventh Skin, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Banyule

    2014 Novacastria, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW

    2014 Outland, Volta10, Basel, Switzerland

    2013 National Self-Portrait Prize, University of Queensland Art Museum, QLD

    2013 Hutchins Art Prize, The Hutchins School, Hobart, Tasmania

    2013 Wonderworks, Cat Street Gallery at Art Basel- Hong Kong

    2013 Northern Lights, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne

    2013 Time, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania

    2013 Critical Operations, TMAG, Tasmania

    2013 Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Photographic Self-Portraiture, CF Gallery, Melbourne

    2012 Living Rooms, curated by Robert Wilson, Louvre, Paris

    2012 Theatre of the World MONA, TAS

    2011 Helen Gory Galerie in Sydney, MOP Gallery, Sydney

    2011 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture, Tweed River Regional Art Gallery

    2011 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2010, Gold Coast City Gallery

    2010 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Hawkesbury

    2010 Short Stories, Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne

    2010 Dobell Drawing Priz, AGNSW

    2010 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2010, Gold Coast City Gallery

    2009 Reframing Darwin: Art & Evolution, Baillieu Library & Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne,

    2009 Belle Arti Award (Winner), Chapman and Bailey, Melbourne

    2009 Heads, Rex Irwin, Sydney, NSW

    2009 Newtown Diaries, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield, Sydney

    2009 Joseph Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery

    2008 Rimbaud / Rambo, Neon Parc, Melbourne

    2007 Isola Corpo, (2 person) Carnegie Gallery, Hobart

    2007 National Photographic Award, Photography as Theatre, Albury Regional Gallery, Albury

    2007 Antipodean Bestiaries, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne,

    2007 Art Melbourne 07, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, VIC

    2007 Let them Roam, Harrison Gallery, Sydney

    2006 Still Moving (with Yvette Coppersmith), Linden Contemporary Art Space, VIC

    2006 Falls Creek Artists, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell

    2006 Melbourne International Art Fair, Melbourne

    2006 Citibank Photographic Portrait Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

    2006 Joseph Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery

    2006 Paper Moon, Orange Regional Gallery and toured Nationally

    2006 Melbourne International Art Fair, Melbourne

    2006 Dobell Drawing Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2005 Portia Geach Memorial Award, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

    2005 Selekta, Westspace, Melbourne

    2005 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne A4, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne

    2003 Future Perfect, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

    2002 International Art Fair, Melbourne

    2002 Portia Geach Memorial Award, Sydney

    2002 Hobart City Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart

    2001 Five Painters, 24hr Art Gallery, Darwin, NT

    2001 ASAP, Vanessa Wood Gallery, Sydney, NSW

    2001 Hutchins Works on Paper, Long Gallery, Hobart

    2000 Salon Des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

    2000 Hutchins Works on Paper, Long Galley, Hobart 1999

    1999 The Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship, Sydney

    1999 Willoughby Art Prize, Sydney

    1999 King’s School Art Award, Sydney Salon Des Refuses, S.H Ervin, Sydney

    1998 Portia Geach Memorial Award, SH Ervin, Sydney

    1998 Survey, Access Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney

    1998 Alice Bale Traveling Scholarship, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne

    1996 Paint Brush will Travel, Star Palace Hotel, Delhi, India

  • 2022 Green Room Award, Best Visual Design, Dance, Jacqui Stockdale and ButohOUT 2021

    2021 Sustaining Creative Worker’s Fund, Creative Victoria

    2020 Myer Foundation, National Assistance Program for the Arts

    2020 Copyright Agency Fund

    2017 New Work Grant Australia Council

    2014 Australia Council Barcelona Studio, Spain

    2013 Watch this Space, Alice Springs, NT

    2012 Winner Doug Moran Photography Award

    2011 New Work Grant Australia Council

    2009 Winner Belle Arte Award

    2006 Artist in Residence, Circus Oz, Monterrey, Mexico

    2004 Bundanon Residency, Shoalhaven, NSW

    2000 Professional Development Grant, Arts Northern Territory

    1998 Winner, King’s School Art Award, Sydney NSW

    1997 Winner, Hutchins Works on Paper Award, TAS

    1997 Winner, Willoughby Drawing Prize, Sydney NSW

  • 2022 Formidable Females, the Judith Wright Contemporary Centre for the Arts, Brisbane, QLD

    2022 Nudes of Chong, Rose Chong Window Theatre, VIC

    2020 Such Is Life, Rose Chong Theatrette, VIC

    2019 Paper Cut Portraits, MCA Artbar, NSW

    2018 Join the Dots, Sydney Opera House, ArtsPeople, Ota City, Japan

    2017 The Boho Show, Rose Chong Theatrette, VIC

    2016 Moira Finucane, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne , VIC

    2014 Madonna’s Milk A Visitation, Rose Chong Theatrette, VIC

    2012 Quiet Wild Goes Quietly Wild, Rose Chong Theatrette, VIC

  • 2023 Visual Designer, ButohBar, ButohOut, Melbourne

    2022 The Secret Story (4.5 min film) in collaboration with Shirin Shakesi

    2021 Visual Designer, ButohOut,Out of Order Melbourne

    2021 Animation, Past Carin, Bush Gothic

    2019 Animation for Public Art Project, Wharfie, Broached Commissions, VIC

    2018 Portrait of David Foster, 20/20 National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

    2018 The 1818 Project, Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW

    2017 Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, VIC

    2016 For a Long Time, Magic Object Adelaide Biennial, WA

    2016 The Boho, Magic Object, Adelaide Biennial, WA

    2007 ABC TV ‘Artscape' ‘Heart’, directed by Amos Gebheardt, awarded Best Documentary, Heart- Anatomy ABC TV/ 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival


  • 2023 Beating About the Bush, A new Lens on Australian Impressionism, Louise Tagart, Kelly Gellatly, Juliette Peers

    2020 Miller, Nick, The Ned Kelly Legend as you’ve never seen it, The Age, Feb 21

    2019 Shkembi,Nur, Jacqui Stockdale,Artist Profile, Issue 48

    2016 Hill, Peter, From Where I Stood, Art Collector, Issue 76, pp 138 - 145 Magic Object catalogue essay, Craig Judd, 2016

    2014 Phillip Hoare, World's End, Frieze Masters, pg 76 - 81 2013 J. Bourke, The Australian, TIME, 13 Feb

    2012 Makin, Jeff, The Quiet Wild, catalogue essay, April 2012

    2012 Clark, Jane. Theatre of the World, MONA Museum of Old and New Art pg 56

    2012 Bunyan, Marcus, Orality, Framing and Enactment, IANN magazine Vol 8, pg 57 – 72

    2012 Aram, Kim Blink magazine, Issue 14

    2012 Bunyan, Marcus Art Blart blog, 13 May

    2011 Lesley Chow, A History of Bloodlines, Cover Feature, Artist Profile, Issue 17, pg 56-63

    Megan Backhouse, feature artist, Papercuts and Bloodlines, Art Guide Australia, summer edition

    LOOK, Contemporary Photography, published by Anne Marsh, McMillian Press, pg 112

    2010 Cameron Boon, Art on the Run, Centralian Advocate, 10 September

    Megan Backhouse, Room of her own, The Age, 23 June

    Sam Leach, Preview: Jacqui Stockdale, Artist Profile, Issue 11, pg 124

    Jane Reddy, The Age, 17 April

    2008 Alexie Glass, Dolls of the Dead, Australian Art Collector, issue 45, pg 128

    Alexie Glass, Some kind of Coyote, catalogue essay

    Lesley Chow, Behind the Masks, ACP Photofile, issue 83

    Jazmina Cininas, Antipodean Beastiary, PAN, issue 5

    2007 Penny Webb, Animal Magnetism, The Age, 18 May

    Ashley Crawford, review, A2 The Age, 19 May

    Aaron Martin, video interview, artinfo.com.au, May

    2006, Webb, Penny. A new take on old ideas, The Age, 16 August

    2006 The Portrait Size Puppet Show, theartlife.com, 26 April

    2005 Joerg Andersch, Salon Superb, Inside Arts, Hobart Mercury, 23 August

    2004 Robert Nelson, Overwritten by History, Shooting the Picturesque, The Age, 19 March

    Maurice O’Riordon, Territorian Alchemy, Australian Art Review, Issue 3, pg 54

    2002 Tim Smith, Orifice, Roots, DVAA, March

    1998 Bruce James, Me, Myself, an Eye, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 October

    Bruce James, How Queer This Art, Sydney Morning Herald, February

    Liz Ashburn, An Encounter with Power, University Press

    1997 Victoria Hammond, Magic Act-Jacqui Stockdale’s Theatre of Illusion, Island Magazine 1995 Heather B Swan, The the (fiction), CAST Magazine, No 6

    994 Victoria Hammond, Trapped in Paradise, Artlink, March, Vol. 14, no. 1

    1992 Maria Kunda, Shadows on the Skin, CAST, Tasmania, no 8

  • National Gallery of Australia

    National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

    Art Gallery of South Australia

    Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

    Ballarat Art Gallery

    Watermill Collection, USA

    Artbank

    Art Gallery of Ballarat

    Hutchin’s Tasmania

    Tasmanian Parlimentary Museum and Special Collections

    Victorian College of the Arts

    Newcastle Regional Art Gallery

    Albury Regional Gallery

    Benalla Regional Art Gallery

    Murray Art Museum, Albury

    Bundanon, Shoalhaven

    Janet Holmes à Court Collection

    HOTA, QLD

Two women standing outdoors against a painted backdrop of trees and sky. The woman in front is dressed in vintage-style clothing with polka dot skirt, lace gloves, and a unique headpiece. The woman behind is wearing a dark dress with a necklace, holding a cloth.

Behind the scenes during the photoshoot for “The Quiet Wild” 2012. Dressing the delightful Mimi Xavier for Rama Jarra the Royal Shepherdess