Damien Minton Gallery

Neridah Stockley stages her first solo exhibition in Sydney at the Damien Minton Gallery with a series of ‘plein air’ work from both Tasmania and Central Australia.

The exhibition also features a suite of fine art etchings, richly illustrating her love for interior image making.

The majority of the show will involve images painted at King Island, Tasmania as part of a residency Neridah recently completed.

I undertook a 5 week Artist Residency at King Island during April/May 2009 as a part of my Qantas Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award I received in 2008.

I had previously spent some time working plein air on mainland Tasmania in late 2007 and decided that I would like to go back to Tasmania,as I had enjoyed the visual contrast to my usual environs of Central Australia.

King Island is very similar to Central Australia in its remoteness and its final frontier edge. It is a dramatic island, that holds shadows of shipwrecks and sealing. It is an industrious island with sea kelping, cattle farms, crayfishing and the dairy.

I largely worked on the south west coastline by craggy coastlines that slide into the Bass Strait where cows regularly eat kelp off cuts.

I also worked on the gravel back roads in the north west of the Island amongst daily Cattle Farming activity.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Major National Art School, East Sydney (1994 – 1996 Completed in 2000)

Collections

Artbank
Charles Darwin University
Parliament House Canberra
Kerry Stokes Collection
Araluen Collection

Private Collections

National and International Collections

Awards

Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award
The Heysen Prize – Highly Commended
Broken Hill Outback Art Prize – Encouragement Award
William Fletcher Trust Fund
Advocate Art Award First Time Entrant Award

Solo exhibitions

2009Damien Minton Gallery Redfern 2009RAFT Artspace – Sojourn Darwin 2007RAFT Artspace – Works from Tennant Creek and the studio 2006RAFT Artspace – Paintings and Drawings 2005Araluen Cultural Precinct – Drawings and Paintings

Group exhibitions

2008Jamboree Xmas Show – Damien Minton Gallery 2008Four Artists Painting the Land – Idris Murphy, Neridah Stockley, John R Walker & Ross Laurie – Damien Minton Gallery Redfern 2008RAFT Artspace – Melbourne Art Fair Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne 2007RAFT Artspace – Stockroom Show Darwin 2007Alice 5 AP Bond Art Dealer Adelaide 2006Other side of Two Mile Araluen Cultural Precinct Alice Springs 2004Watch this Space Members Show Alice Springs 2004Advocate Art Award Araluen Cultural Precinct Alice Springs 2003Watch this Space Members Show Alice Springs 2002Watch this Space Members Show Alice Springs 2000Newtown Studios Newtown 2000Global Gallery Paddington

Selected art prizes and exhibitions

2009Gifted II Recent Acquisitions Charles Darwin University Darwin 2009Eyes on the Centre Araluen Cultural Precinct Alice Springs 2008Heysen Prize (Highly Commended) 2008The Other Thing – a survey show Charles Darwin University Darwin 2008Accounting for the Collector Logan Art Gallery Logan 2007Togart Contemporary Art Award Parliament House Darwin 2007Broken Hill Outback Art Prize 2006Our Home Recent Acquisitions Charles Darwin University Darwin 2006Togart Contemporary Art Award Parliament House Darwin 2006The Alice Prize Araluen Cultural Precinct Alice Springs 2006The Whyalla Prize Whyalla 1999The Alice Prize Araluen Cultural Precinct Alice Springs

Publications

2008Australian Art Collector (Issue 43) Nominated in Australia’s Most 100 Collectable Artists 2008RAFT Artspace Melbourne Art Fair Catalogue