Robyn Stacey
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Keynote Speaker
Robyn Stacey is the Keynote Speaker at the VADEA (Visual Arts & Design Educators Association) Annual Conference Symbiosis on Saturday 11th of May 2024.
King’s School Art Prize
Robyn Stacey has been announced as the winner of the 2023 King's School Art prize with her work Wednesday December 14 2022 at 11:16:39. This is the first photographic work to enter the collection. The 2023 judge Barry Keldoulis, has been the Director of Sydney Contemporary Art Fair since its inauguration in 2013.
Since 1994 The King’s School Sydney has, through its prestigious Art Prize, acquired the works of some of Australia’s most influential and innovative contemporary artists. Now in its 29th year, The King’s School Art Prize Exhibition continues to share with our wider community a collection of artworks from Australia’s leading artists.
The King’s School Art Prize is a $20,000 acquisitive award presented to the artist judged the best contemporary artwork, created by an artist resident in Australia and represented by a commercial gallery, supporting both the artists and the fine arts industry. Entry is by invitation only and the finalists are selected by an appointed Art Prize panel.
Previous winners of the Art Prize have included such artists as: Aida Tomescu, John Olsen, Ben Quilty, Euan Macleod, McLean Edwards, Jacquie Stockdale, Peter Churcher, Joanna Logue, Nicholas Harding, Cassaria Young Hogan and Pepai Jangala Carroll.
Robyn Stacey: Just Light, 10-28 August, 2022
Jan Manton Gallery, 54 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
Robyn Stacey: Just Light, 5 March – 9 April 2022,
Darren Knight Gallery, 840 Elizabeth St Waterloo.
"They’re not of anything. They’re just light" says Robyn Stacey of her new photographs.
"There is nothing more wondrous than light, and nothing more strange. From slot experiments
and wave-particle duality, to the apricity of the winter sun warming the skin. None of us understand it,
not if we’re honest, but we feel it."
Destination Sydney: the natural world, Tuesday 4 January – Sunday 20 March 2022,
Mosman Gallery, Sydney
Presented as part of Sydney Festival 2022. The third exhibition in a series of collaborations planned between three Sydney public galleries, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Mosman Art Gallery and the National Trust’s S. H. Ervin. It will showcase artworks responding to the theme of Sydney as a place of creative endeavours, with a strong focus on the work of major Australian women artists, all connected by their concern for landscape, the natural world and the environment
Artists at Mosman Art Gallery include Janet Laurence, Caroline Rothwell and Robyn Stacey.
Know My Name - Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now,
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and nationwide
Know My Name is an initiative of the National Gallery to increase the representation and participation of artists who identify as women across its collections and programs. Through this initiative, the Gallery aims to enhance the understanding and appreciation of work by Australian women artists.
Robyn Stacey, Untitled (Girl in blond wig on floor) 1985,
colour photograph, silver dye bleach print, 70.2 x 58.6 cm
Know My Name is being delivered in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, oOh!media, Wikimedia Australia and cultural partners the Australia Council for the Arts, Countess, National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Australian Ballet.
The program includes vibrant and intergenerational events and exhibitions, along with a major publication featuring the work of 150 Australian women artists.
Outdoor advertiser oOh!media and the National Gallery of Australia have partnered with internet search giant Google to harness Google Lens technology in an exhibition of Australian women artists in locations across the nation.
The three organisations are featuring the works of art of six artists across high-profile Out of Home sites as part of the National Gallery’s Know My Name initiative. The six featured artists are Melinda Harper, Nora Heysen, Olive Cotton, Robyn Stacey, Grace Cossington Smith and Sally Gabori.
The Storytellers, Museum of Brisbane, until 24 April 2022, (temporarily closed)
Guards Room Boggo Road Gaol, Rena, 2015,
type C photograph on aluminium panel, Ed.1+2AP, 101.5 x 300 cm
The Storytellers creates an immersive and interactive experience combining historical objects, artworks, and written and narrated histories to share Brisbane’s many identities.
Over the decades, Brisbane has played host to conflict, celebration, scandal, disaster, ceremony and transformative moments. Through fact and fiction, The Storytellers reveals the layers of Brisbane’s history, providing different perspectives and a deeper, human interpretation of our city.
Women We Have Known, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA, until 25 July
Robyn Stacey, Salmon 2009,
Type C print, Ed.5 + 2 AP, 59 x 90 cm
This group exhibition represents work exclusively by women artists. Photographs by PDNB Gallery artists are included alongside work by artists new to the gallery. The timespan of the show covers almost 100 years. This stretch of time references the upcoming Centennial celebration of the passing of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. The show is available to view online as PDNB Gallery gradually resumes visitor capacity.
Robyn Stacey: Ray of Light, Roxby Downs Art Gallery 8th August — 11th October 2020
Robyn Stacey - Tear Drop Garden, Carrick Hill, 2016
from Ray of Light (Adelaide Biennial)
Type C print, Ed.5 + 2 AP, 110 x 146.7cm
Visitors will be welcomed to the Roxby Downs Art Gallery to see Robyn Stacey: Ray of Light from 8th August till 11th October 2020. First shown at the 2016 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art: Magic Object, Robyn Stacey uses camera obscura to depict the city of Adelaide as it has never been seen before. The exhibition is touring the regional galleries of South Australia until late 2020.
Roxby Downs, Roxbylink Art Gallery
8 August - 11 October 2020
Port Lincoln, Nautilus Arts Centre
16 October – 14 November 2020
Goolwa, South Coast Regional Arts Centre Gallery
3 March – 11 April 2021
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