By Amber Stokie
2025
oil on canvas
28.5x28.5cm framed
$800
ARTIST STATEMENT
"Originating from a colourful and fragmented monoprint taken from my paint palette, this work transforms the remnants of process into a resolved image. The resulting 'colour storms' articulate both the physical labour of painting and the psychological weight it carries. Through layered gesture and chromatic intensity, I extend my ongoing inquiry into abstraction as an embodied record of movement, emotion, and material thinking."
BIO
Amber Stokie is an Australian artist working across painting and abstraction.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts (High Distinction) from RMIT University, Melbourne. Since 2006, she has exhibited widely, curated exhibitions at Artasis Gallery, and presented live painting performances, including at the National Gallery of Victoria. A finalist in several national art prizes, including the Williamstown, Stanthorpe, and Blacktown prizes, she received the People’s Choice Award at AGENDO in Melbourne and the ADFAS Young Artist Award for her RMIT MFA exhibition. Her commissioned performance Are You An Artist Too was presented at Montsalvat Arts Centre in 2019, and her work is held in private collections nationally and internationally.