Sally Stokes
Lives and works in NSW
EDUCATION
2008 Master of Analytical Psychology (Distinction), University of Western Sydney
1991 Ceramics Certificate, Hornsby TAFE
1979 Post Art Certificate, East Sydney TAFE (now the National Art School)
1974 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Flinders Uni, South Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Hidden Songs: NERAM
2023 The Song of Other Places: Rochfort Gallery
2023 Eternal Return: Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
2023 The Scent of Summer: Van Rensburg Galleries
2022 Dancing in Stillness: Boom Gallery
2021 The black honey of summer: Rochfort Gallery
2020 A third place: Project Gallery 90
2020 Landline: Rochfort Gallery (upper level)
2017 Conversations with Colour: Annandale Galleries
2017 Moods of the River: Bird’s Gallery 236 High St Kew
2015 A Sense of Place: Depot Gallery 2 Danks St. Waterloo
2014 Journey to the Interior: Depot Gallery 2 Danks St. Waterloo
2012 Lures of Landscape: Depot Gallery 2 Danks St. Waterloo
2012 Smaller paintings: Wattle cafe Blackheath
2011 It’s all about the Colour: Depot Gallery 2 Danks St. Waterloo
2001 A Search for the Pattern: Robertson’s, Church Point
2000 Pools and Ponds: James Harvey Gallery, Balmain
1998 Reflections: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1996 The Drawing Room: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1992 Lenny’s Dam and Marramarra: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1990 Exhibition of Paintings: Pelican Palace, Putney
1988 Four by Four: Sweet Jamaique Gallery Melbourne
1984 Mostly Hawkesbury: James Harvey Gallery Newtown
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Action in Abstraction: Wagner Contemporary
2023 Collectors Gallery Group Show: Rochfort Gallery
2023 Summer Exhibition Wagner Contemporary
2022 Beside the Sea: Van Rensburg Galleries
2022 Rhythms of the Monaro: Wagner Contemporary
2021 Boundless: Rochfort Gallery
2020 Boom Gallery: Terra Firma
2020 Ode to colour: Project Gallery 90
2020 Salon des Refusés: SH Ervin Gallery
2020 Landscapes: Studio Direct: Michael Reid Gallery
2020 In my backyard: Rochfort Gallery
2019 Random Space: Project Gallery 90
2019 Beyond the surface: Project Gallery 90
2019 Colour is key: Fern Street Gallery
2019 Land Rhythms: Rochfort Gallery
2019 Modern Love: AK Bellinger
2018 Ladder Art Space: Kew (Victoria)
2018 Cracker: Rochfort Gallery
2018 Project Gallery 90
2018 Project Gallery 90
2018 Movers & Shapers: Hazelhurst Gallery
2018 Boom Gallery: Geelong VIC
2018 Pigments at Play Rochfort Gallery
2018 ESSENCE: Recent Paintings by Sally Stokes & Leah Thiessen
ARO Gallery, Darlinghurst
2017 Ways of Seeing: Sheffer Gallery
2016 A Social Landscape: Depot Gallery Danks St. Waterloo.
2016 Drawn together, Painted apart: Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
2016 Heat and Light: Janet Clayton Gallery Paddington
2015 Within and Beyond: Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga
2014 Estuarine: Redfish Cafe Gallery, Brooklyn
2013 River Marks: Edge Art Space, Brooklyn
2011 Assisi, International Contemporary art: citta di Assisi Italy 2001
2000 Galerie le Gue: France
1999 Galerie le Gue: Den Haag
1996 Provenance the Artist: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1996 Landscape 8 views: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1995 Trimmings: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1995 A joy forever: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1993 Connecting Passages: Seymour Centre Gallery
1993 The Landscape Exhibition: Cell Block, National Art School, with Elisabeth
Cummings, Peter Godwin, Madeleine Halliday, Clara Hali & David Collins
1993 Celebrating Women’s Strength: Tin Sheds
1992 Not quite strictly stockroom: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
1990 AGNSW, Sir John Sulman Art Prize: Finalist
1984 Four painters: James Harvey Gallery Balmain
AWARDS
2024 Blacktown Art Prize: Finalist
2023 Hornsby Art Prize: Finalist
2023 National Capital Art Prize: Finalist
2023 Muswellbrook: Finalist
2022 Blacktown City Art Prize: Finalist
2022 Fisher’s Ghost: Finalist
2022 Waverley Art Prize: Finalist
2021 Muswellbrook Art Prize: Winner (acquired)
2021 KAAF: Finalist
2021 GCS Art Award: Finalist
2020 Paddington Art Prize: Winner: People’s Choice Award
2020 Blacktown City Art Prize: Finalist
2020 Paddington Art Prize: Finalist
2019 Paddington Art Prize: Finalist
2019 Gosford Art Prize: Finalist
2019 Hornsby Art Prize: Finalist
2019 Calleen Art Prize Finalist
2018 Grace Cossington Smith Art Prize: Finalist
2018 Paddington Art Prize: Finalist
2018 Calleen Prize: Finalist
2018 Hill’s Art Prize: Finalist
2017 King’s Art Prize: Finalist
2017 KAAF Art Prize: Finalist
2016 KAAF Art Prize: Finalist
1994 Hills Grammar Art Prize: Winner
1992 Hills Grammar Art Prize: Winner
1991 Hills Grammar Art Prize: Finalist
1990 AGNSW, Sir John Sulman Art Prize: Finalist
1983 Hawkesbury Art Prize: acquired
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2021 Kelton Plain (near Cooma)
2020 Nancy Fairfax Artist-in-residence, Tweed Regional Gallery
2018 Artist residency Yellow Box, Turondale
2011 Ginestrelle, Assisi, Italy
COLLECTIONS
2021 Newcastle Art Gallery Collection
2021 Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
1996 Artbank (3 paintings)
1983 Hawkesbury Regional Gallery