Vanessa Stockard
Exhibitions
Winter/Spring Salon 2023
Scott Livesey Galleries, 29/07/2023 to 30/09/2023
The 'Winter/Spring Salon' will be a rotating and updating group exhibition throughout Winter 2023.... Read More >
Elizabeth Siddal: The Power of the Muse
Scott Livesey Galleries, 17/06/2023 to 08/07/2023
Elizabeth Siddal: The Power of the MuseI was a young art student at the time, fate as it were, had me living with an English family purportedly related to Elizabeth Siddal, the most famous Pre- Raphaelite muse of all time. Apparently, I had a ‘job’ as a nanny and/or house sitter at times. I’m not sure exactly what I did (not much ).. however Jenny let me live in their lovely terrace in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.I often talked about art with Jenny Siddall, the children’s mother, she let me follow her around the house like a lost duckling and I grew to love her very much.The first time I saw Millais's Ophelia at the Tate, ... Read More >
Vanessa Stockard 2020
Scott Livesey Galleries, 29/08/2020 to 19/09/2020
The Wondrous World of Vanessa Stockard.The world of Vanessa Stockard is one of whimsy, fantastical mythology and more than a little madness. It’s at once strangely funny and thematically threatening. Her works invite you into this space to share a child-like wonder, but once there, an unsettling feeling takes hold and you’re through the looking glass.You’re intrigued, captivated and maybe even a little scared not unlike the first time you opened Maurice Sendak’s, ‘Where The Wild Things Are’.Alice herself would find this Wonderland challenging. It’s a landscape of twist and turns, peaks and troughs where you’ll feel a... Read More >
Gleam
Scott Livesey Galleries, 20/03/2019 to 13/04/2019
Born in Sydney in 1975 Vanessa Stockard spent her formative years in a small country town in the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. At 12 she returned to Sydney as a boarder at Abbotsleigh. After graduating from the College of Fine Arts (COFA) Sydney in 1998 with a BFA, Stockard joined the avant-garde art scene in the bohemian village of Glebe. Twenty years of introspection and experimentation, ranging over a number of media, have forged Vanessa’s style and vulcanised her craft, enabling her to reveal complex misdemeanours, while simultaneously demanding the viewer’s self-reflection. She deals with isolation and sadness wit... Read More >
Vanessa Stockard
K-bomb da Vinci 'Mona Lisa' I
2023
oil on dibond
35.00 x 23.00 cm
53 x 40 cm overall in 19th C antique frameSold
Vanessa Stockard
K-bomb Waterhouse 'Lady of Shalott'
2023
oil on dibond
49.00 x 59.00 cm
75 x 82 cm framed
Vanessa Stockard
K-bomb Rossetti 'Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal'
2023
oil on dibond
23.00 x 15.00 cm
49 x 41 cm overall in a 19th C antique frameSold
Vanessa Stockard
Don't wash, don't cut, don't touch (Synthetic Styling)
2023
oil on dibond
20.00 x 20.00 cm
30 x 30 cm framed
Vanessa Stockard
K-Bomb Millais 'Ophelia'
2023
oil on dibond
49.00 x 59.00 cm
75 x 82 cm overall in a 19th C antique frameSold