WENDY STOKES
Visual Arts Practice: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking
Resides and works Mid North Coast NSW
2016 MFA Research UNSW Art and Design
2014 Cite International des Arts, Paris, UNSW Studio
1992 Guest Artist Hampton Editions, Long Island, New York
1986 Graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1980 Diploma in Art, Newcastle College of Advanced Education, Newcastle
member Sydney Printmakers 1980 to present
Teaching -North Coast Institute TAFE in painting, drawing, printmaking 1999-2016
Solo Exhibitions (abbreviated)
2022 BMGart Adelaide; Flower in the Wind, notations of memory
Blended Geographies VMG Art series, Catherine Asquith Art, South Yarra, Melbourne
2019 Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Within and between the space of landscape, Port Macquarie NSW
2017 Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Walking in the space of landscape, Maitland NSW
2016 Grafton Regional Gallery; Retracing Memory, Grafton NSW
2015 Tamworth Regional Gallery; In Conversation: The Nymphéas, Tamworth NSW
2014 BMGart, Adelaide, S.A
Cite des Arts, Open studio -Drawing as site, Paris, France
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Drawing as site, Paris and Giverny, Coffs Harbour NSW
2012 Catherine Asquith Gallery, Mark and Place – the Space Between; Melbourne
2011 Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, A Silent Conversation, Coffs Harbour
2010 BMGart, Aspects of Transience, Adelaide, South Australia
Catherine Asquith Gallery Resilience, Melbourne
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie Layered Reference, Friends of the Gallery print commission
2008 Catherine Asquith Gallery, Interplay, Melbourne
Tamworth Regional Gallery, Transience, Tamworth
Catherine Asquith Gallery, New Territory Melbourne
Award Exhibitions
A finalist in The Glover Prize; EMSLA, The Fleurieu Water Prize, The Alice Prize, 3xCountry Energy Landscape Prize; Sunshine Coast Art Award; Fishers Ghost Award; 3 x finalist in The JADA prize and acquisition; the Dobell Prize for Drawing; Printmaking: 2 x MPAC Print Prize, Mornington Arts Centre; Fremantle Print Prize, Fremantle Arts Centre; Henri Worland Print Prize, Warrnambool Regional Gallery and acquisition; Seoul International Print Biennale, National Museum of Modern Art Seoul, Korea;3x Swan Hill Regional Gallery Print Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery; Mosman Art Prize; Gold Coast City Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery
Publications, reviews and essays (abbreviated)
Within and between the space of landscape, Interview between the artist and Curator, Bridget Purtill
Port Macquarie Regional Gallery Glasshouse Port Macquarie 2019
Retracing memory: essay Louise Martin Chew, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, 2016
In Conversation: the Nymphéas, essay Louise Martin Chew, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, 2015
Air, Light, Space -Contemporary Abstraction, essay Louise Martin Chew, introduction Niomi Sands, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery at the Glasshouse, Port Macquarie, 2013
A Silent Conversation, essay Christopher Orchard, Dr Leigh Summers, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery 2011
View Points -Approach to Landscape essay, Laura Murray Cree, Catherine Asquith Gallery, 2011
Resilience, essay John McDonald; Catherine Asquith Gallery 2010
Collections
National Gallery of Australia; AGNSW; Print Council of Australia; Parliament House, Canberra; Grafton Regional Gallery; Gosford Regional Gallery; Coffs Harbour City Gallery; Bathurst Regional Gallery; Port Macquarie Glasshouse Regional Gallery; Tamworth Regional Gallery; Warrnambool Regional Gallery; Narrabri City Collection; Charles Sturt University Collection; Chancellery, Melbourne University; Newcastle College of Advanced Education, University of Newcastle; Print Council of Australia Secondary Schools Project; Artbank; Transfield Collection; Shell Company Australia, London, UK; State Bank of NSW; NAB; IBM; Price Waterhouse; Crowne Melbourne; Mc Laren Vale Wines; Montrose NSW