Vanessa Stockard

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VANESSA STOCKARD


'Growing up I often felt like an outsider. At boarding school there was this perfect blonde brigade, and I was not that. Life is beautiful in many ways, and yet hard and sad for many people. Like the drifters and the outsiders. I often try to soften the pathos and sadness I see in the world by adding some comic relief to my paintings. Otherwise I feel we'd all fall in a hole. Hopefully that way you get the beautiful with a joke on top.

A graduate of the College of Fine Arts (COFA) and a finalist of the Archibald Prize in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Vanessa paints in her studio in Bowral, NSW. Her practice is a combination of brush strokes with the drawn line, a daily juxtaposition of control and letting go. Her love of the peculiar, the comic and the ethereal continues to drive her.

Oddity has never worried me. My Sydney school was surrounded by three halfway houses, and often on the way to and from the boarding house, the girls were flashed by lodgers. To me those people never felt threatening, just completely outside the norm. Derek Milkwood is someone like that. He's a gentle character I paint, based on a guy I used to see in a Sydney park who would hang out naked in the reeds. I never knew his name, so I gave him one, Derek Milkwood. It just sounded like a wrong name for a misfit. I love him as a character, and use his paintings to broach stuff I find unfair, funny or absurd. If I have found life hard at times, what must life be like for him?'




Solo Exhibitions

2023 Elizabeth Siddal: The Power of the Muse, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2022 Brave New Weird, JEFA Gallery Byron Bay
2022 Bedtime Stories, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2021 Kaleidoscope, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2020 The Baroque, TwentyTwentySix, Bondi Sydney
2020 Vanessa Stockard, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2020 All Things Great and Smol, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2020 Young Curators, 3:33 Art Projects, Sydney
2018-19 Vanessa Stockard, 3:33 Art Projects, Clayton Utz, Sydney
2019 Enchanted, Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
2019 Vanessa Stockard, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2019 Gleam, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Vanessa Stockard, Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong
2018 Vanessa Stockard, Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
2017 Cold Comforts, curated by Amber Cresswell Bell, Sheffer Gallery
2017 Vanessa Stockard, Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
2016 Vanessa Stockard, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2015 Halcyon, Wadsworth Gallery, Sydney
2015 La Vie en Rose, Art2Muse, Sydney
2014 Shift, Michael Reid, Murrurundi
2014 Textura, Art2Muse, Sydney
2013 Inside, Outside, Charles Hewitt, Sydney
2013 The Garden, Maunsell Wickes, Sydney
2012 Untethered, Maunsell Wickes, Sydney
2012 Tenebrism, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2011 Vanessa Stockard, Artist’s Deli, Bowral
2010 Quiesce, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2009 Siren’s Song, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2009 Taree Regional Gallery, Taree
2007Ǟǟ Murdoch Collections, Portland, USA
2007 Cork, Portland, USA
1999 Dendy Cinema Sydney

Group Exhibitions

2023 Finalist, Salon des Refusés, S.H. Erwin Gallery, Sydney
2022 Wizard Gallery, Milan, Italy
2022 Finalist, Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley
2022 Finalist, Little Things Art Prize, Sydney
2022 Cat Con Worldwide, Cat Art Show, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Two Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021 Cat Art Show LA, Los Angeles
2021 Bush Christmas, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2021 Finite Art Space, Brisbane, Queensland
2021 A Place For Us, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2021 Make My Daisy, TwentyTwentySix, Bondi Sydney
2020 Finalist, Arts in the Valley, Kangaroo Valley
2020 Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
2020 Take Away Adventures, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2019 Van Rensburg Galleries, AAF, Hong Kong
2019 Finalist - Moran Portrait Prize
2019 Finalist - Archibald NSW Art Gallery
2019 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Derek and Friends, AKBellinger Gallery, Inverell
2018 Cat Show LA, Los Angeles
2018 Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong
2018 Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
2018 Finalist - Archibald NSW Art Gallery
2017 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017 Finalist - Portia Geach Portrait Prize
2017 Finalist - Archibald NSW Art Gallery
2016 Equus, Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2016 Birds Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Van Rensburg Galleries, Hong Kong
2016 Van Rensburg Galleries, New York
2015 The Moree Gallery, Moree
2015 Stones, Berrima
2015 Michael Reid, Murrurrundi
2015 Murdoch Collections, Portland, USA
2014 En Fleur, Queen Street Gallery, Woollahra
2014 Space Matters, ION, Kings Street Wharf, Sydney
2014 Autumn show, Bradman Art Gallery Centre, Bowral
2014 Murdoch Collections, Portland, Oregon.
2013 Goulburn Regional Gallery, Goulburn (award, highly commended)
2013 BCAG, Bradman Art gallery Centre, Bowral
2013 Sydney Children's Hospital, (permanent collection)
2013 Something Small, Charles Hewitt, Marrickville
2013 Is it a bird, Is it a plane, Charles Hewitt, Marrickville
2013 Wombat Hollow, Maunsell Wickes and Michael Yabsley, Kangaloon
2012 A Painterly Selection, Artist’s Deli, Bowral
2012 Views and Visions, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2011 Think Big, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2011 Mythos Fine Art, California, USA
2011 Murdoch Collections, Portland, USA
2010 About Flowers, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2010 Something Personal, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
2009 Don Capon, Sydney Eye Hospital, Sydney
2009 Blank_Space Art Gallery, Sydney
2009 Perlcontemporaryart, Vaucluse, NSW 
2008 Taree Art Show, Taree, NSW
2007 Katayama, Portland, USA
2006ǝ Guestroom Gallery, Portland, USA
2005 The Art Lounge, Sydney
2005 The Brush Gallery, Wingham, NSW
2005 Kelmans Winery, Hunter Valley, NSW
2003 Walcom Manning Art Prize
2003 Moulton Art Gallery Mona Vale, NSW
2002 Applause Gallery, South Melbourne
1998ǟ Woollahra Art Show
1997-2004 Taree Art Exhibition
1997 Seal Rocks Show, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, NSW

Studies

2006-2007 Gilding and Carving with Dane Wilson, Master Framer, Katayama, USA
2003-2004 Julian Ashton Art School, (Anatomy and Life drawing)
2002-2003 North Sydney Art School, (Still Life and Landscape Painting)
1999-2001 The Framing School, Sydney, (Conservation and Object Framing)
1995-1999 University of NSW, COFA, BFA (painting)
1994 University of Sydney, Art History

Artwork 9117
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 frame

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Artwork 9116
Vanessa Stockard
K-bomb Waterhouse 'Lady of Shalott'

2023

oil on dibond

49.00 x 59.00 cm

75 x 82 cm framed

Artwork 9113
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 frame

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Artwork 9105
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



Artwork 9103
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 frame

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Artwork 8112
Vanessa Stockard
Sleep Juice

2020

oil on board

70.00 x 65.00 cm

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Artwork 7505
Vanessa Stockard
Shred (Pink)

2019

oil on board

50.00 x 50.00 cm

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Artwork 6952
Vanessa Stockard
Self Portrait

2017

acrylic on birch panel

70.00 x 65.00 cm

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