Wendy Stokes

Wendy Stokes has consistently worked across painting, drawing and printmaking disciplines for the last 4 decades primarily focusing on medium to large scale painting and work on paper. She has been awarded a MFA through UNSW Art and Design, Sydney and holds a Graduate Diploma Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia; having her work acquired in the National Gallery Australia; AGNSW and Tamworth,Grafton,Coffs Harbour,Port Macquarie Glasshouse, Gosford, Bathurst and Warrnambool Regional Galleries. Wendy was a recipient of a research residency through UNSW at Cite International des Arts,Paris in 2014. Her work has been selected in The Glover Prize,The Fleurieu Prize, The Alice Prize,The Dobell Drawing prize and the JADA drawing award.

Stokes art practice is informed by her familiar coastal environment and daily interaction within it through the ritual practice of walking.Such an integral and sincere relationship to this landscape provides a platform for ideas to be explored through a blend of emotional and lived cartography.

Avoiding a localized site, the artist pulls from a collective memory, targeting the felt vibrations of a journey. The works becomes a compilation of parallel landscapes crossing geogra...

MFA Research UNSW Art and Design,Sydney, NSW Australia

Graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Diploma in Art, Newcastle College of Advanced Education, Newcastle,Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Walking in the space of landscape, Maitland,NSW,Australia
Grafton Regional Gallery; Retracing Memory ,Grafton, NSW, Australia
Tamworth Regional Gallery; In Conversation: The Nymphéas, Tamworth NSW,Australia
BMGart, Adelaide, S.A. Australia
Internationale Cite des Arts, Drawing as site, Paris, France
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Drawing as site, Paris and Giverny, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Mark and Place – the Space Between; Melbourne, Australia
Walcha Gallery of Art, Walcha, NSW, Australia
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, A Silent Conversation, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
BMG art, Aspects of Transience, Adelaide, South Australia
Catherine Asquith Gallery Resilience, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie Layered Reference, Friends of the Gallery print commission
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Interplay, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Tamworth Regional Gallery, Transience, Tamworth, NSW, Australia
Catherine Asquith Gallery, New Territory Melbourne
Sydney art Darlington, Sydney,Marked in Time
BMG art, Adelaide South Australia
Robin Gibson Gallery,Layers of Association, Sydney
Flinders Lane Gallery...