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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 >

Twenty One

Scott Livesey Galleries, 15/07/2021 to 21/08/2021

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 >