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Amber Stokie uses innovative ways of painting to communicate the richness and unpredictable nature of contemporary life and life experienced as a triplet. To structure her works Stokie uses a variety of techniques that include employing both hands and multiple brushes simultaneously to create paintings loaded with gestural marks that interact; collide, combine, pull apart and unite. This technique and the physical act of painting mimics the movement of an orchestra conductor, therefore Stokie sees music as an important element in her work which helps her to step into the emotional space required to realise the entire painting. Stokie enjoys moving between abstract expressionism and figuration in her paintings, believing both are helpful in conceptualising her work.

As a triplet Stokie has experienced life as a “we” more than an “I” which is the catalyst for her ongoing interest in human collective experience and emotion and provides a starting point for her to reflect on life’s complexity in general. Her works are often imbued with her own identity and struggle to achieve individuation. She considers her own identity as a grouped one which explains the sensation of never being alone and always existing alongside, and considering others.