Artist Jacqui Stockdale explores the enigma that is the diversity of humanity in works that mask and unmask our cultural mores, belief systems, superstitions, rituals, identity and means of belonging. Claire Bridge, ArtworldWomen
Jacqui has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally has been included in exhibitions such as Beating About the Bush, Art Gallery of Ballarat; 20/20, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Magic Object, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA; Theatre of the World, MONA; Alles Masquerade, Museum Rot, Germany; Todays/Tomorrow, Cape Town, South Africa, Living Rooms, curated by Robert Wilson, Louvre Museum, Paris; Outlands, Volta, Switzerland; and Wonderworks, Hong Kong. Her recent solo exhibition, Angel at my Table, at the Melbourne Art Fair 2024 awarded Best of Melbourne Art by Arts Hub.
In 2012 Stockdale won the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize and was a recipient of the Australia Council Barcelona Studio Residency in 2014. Her work is held in permanent collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Watermill Collection, USA.
Jacqui has worked in collaboration with Yumi Umiumare and Melbourne Dance Company, ButohOut, receiving a Green Room Award for Best Visual Design in 2022. In 2018 the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival and Art Museum and Library ŌTA, Japan presented Join the Dots, a real time digital art project that brought together artist’s Jacqui Stockdale and Nobumasa Takahashi.