Gayle Stockley

Gayle Stockley has lived and studied art in Perth, Melbourne and Canberra, in 1993 settling in Wamboin (outside Canberra) where she has a studio. She also spends time at Wapengo (south coast NSW). “I trained as a painter but have been drawn to the direct working processes of drawing and hands-on physicality of sculpture”. For the period 2008-2015 Gayle used bushfire-blackened casuarina ‘sticks’ to construct simple, geometric, relief sculpture.
From 2015, on returning to oil painting her work has developed an abstract, minimalist style. Acrylic or oil paint is applied with either brush or palette knife on canvas, sometimes using canvas collage on un-stretched canvas. Her colour, line and form are drawn from a life-long observation of nature, however Gayle has been greatly influenced by seeing the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Brancusi and other much-admired artist’s work in New York in 2019.
Gayle has exhibited work at several regional galleries in NSW and Victoria, exhibited at Sculpture Bermagui, won the Goulburn Regional Art Prize in 2009 and was a finalist in the 2022 42nd Alice Prize, National Contemporary Art Award.

Canberra School of Art (ANU), Associate Diploma of Visual Arts, 1988
Melbourne State College, Visual Arts Diploma of Education, 1981
Western Australian Institute of Technology (Curtin Uni), Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1979

2022 the 42nd Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT
2022 Sculpture Bermagui, Bermagui, South Coast NSW
2021 EGAG Wrap 2021 small artwork prize,East Gippsland Art Gallery
2021 Capital Culture House, Madrid, Spain. ‘Eternity’ Virtual group exhibition
2021 ‘Interwoven 5’, group exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT
2021 ‘Small Works Art Prize’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melb., Victoria
2020 ‘Interwoven 4’, group exhibition, Spiral Gallery, Bega, NSW
2020 selected artists group exhibition, Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo, NSW (cancelled due to bushfires)
2019 Bermagui art space, solo exhibition
2018 Goulburn Regional Art Prize, finalists exhibition
2017 Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Art Award, finalists exhibition
2016 Local Press cafe - solo exhibition
2016 Goulburn Regional Art Prize - finalists show
2014 Inaugural Clearwater Sculpture Prize exhibition, Queanbeyan, NSW
2013 Two Fires Festival of Arts exhibition, Braidwood, NSW
2012 Sculpture on the Edge, Bermagui, NSW
2012 ‘Lines & Circles’, Ilios Gallery, Hackett, ACT (2 person)
2011 Sculpture on the Edge, Bermagui, NSW
2010 Goulburn Regional Art Prize 2009 Winners show
2010 SwanHill Regional Drawing Prize, finalists show
2009 Goulburn Regional Art Prize, finalists show
2008 Goulburn Regional Ar...