“While there’s a lot to be said for the power of play and free association, Stockdale’s collages are, like her overall practice, bound up with serious and timely issues. Collage itself is a highly apt medium for portraying the contemporary human condition: multilayered, complex, vernacular, unstable. Maurice O'Riordan 2010 Each of the unique portraits in Papercuts and Bloodlines present the human form in a myriad of different guises and explore the complexities of the human mind and spirit. They may reference each other, like a bizarre family tree, hints of the past, traces of memory from fragments of old drawings, cut and pasted like our own histories that have been constructed from memory, believed, revered and glorified.”

_Maurice O’Riordan, September 2011