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ARTIST STATEMENT

Using painterly line and pattern alongside a diverse colour palette, Amber Stokie creates rich and provocative paintings that reflect her inner world and the broader human experience. Personal symbolic iconography often emerges in her paintings, enabling her to create playful and imaginative responses to life’s unpredictable nature, extending an invitation to experience a sense of optimism and wonder. Marked by an openness to revision and re-imagination, each series of work directly informs the next as Stokie embraces experimentation and stylistic diversion.


BIO

In 2018 Amber Stokie completed a Master of Fine Arts with distinction at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Stokie has been exhibiting regularly in group and solo exhibitions since 2009. From 2006 to 2009 she established and curated regular exhibitions at Artasis Gallery (ARI) in Richmond. Throughout this period, she also completed many private and corporate commissions and participated in live painting performances at venues that included the National Gallery of Victoria and Chapter House in Melbourne, VIC.

She has been a finalist in the Williamstown, Stanthorpe and Blacktown prizes and has won “people’s choice” at AGENDO emerging art award. In 2016 she was recipient of the ADFAS Young Artist Award for her RMIT MFA work, the next year she successfully applied for a solo exhibition at the Wodonga Public Art Gallery. Stokie has been awarded multiple grants for her work from both Council and RMIT University. In 2019 she was commissioned to perform a key work “Are You An Artist Too” from her Masters studies at the 2019 Montsalvat Arts Centre in Melbourne.