ARTIST STATEMENT
 

Amber Stokie describes her latest body of work as a reflection of her own emotional journey, both as an artist and as someone navigating the complexities of life. Her work draws from personal experience, but always with an awareness of something bigger - a sense of the shared, often unpredictable rhythm of being human.

Using biomorphic forms, and personal symbolic iconography, she explores her subject through a visual language that blurs the line between figuration and abstraction. The result is a series of dreamlike spaces that invite viewers to engage their own imagination within the ambiguity. Each work evolves naturally as she pushes their expressive potential.

"I wanted to make paintings about things that feel like medicine to me. Music, animals, art, learning, food, solitude. I figured the things that heal me might help heal you too. I hope so."

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.