ROBYN STACEY
b. 1952 Brisbane., Australia
Robyn Stacey, Salmon, 2009
Education
Holds a Masters of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Empire Line, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2008 The Great and the Good, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2007 Museum, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney
Museum: The Macleays, Their Collection And The Search For Order, Macleay Museum, Sydney
2006 Beau Monde Stills Gallery, Sydney
2005 Supermodels, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2004 The Macleay Revisited, Macleay Museum, University of Sydney
Robyn Stacey’s herbarium, Stills South, Sydney
2003 The Collectors Nature, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2002 - 2003 Cabinet of Curiosities, Elizabeth Bay House
At First Site, Regional Galleries tour, NSW, ACT and Victoria, Feb 2002 – June 2003
2001 Hot House, Gallery W M, Amsterdam, May-June
Hot House 1, Stills Gallery, Sydney, September- October
Hot House 2, Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, October- November.
At First Site, Hazelhurst Gallery, Sydney and regional gallery tour 2002-2003
2000 Surrender, Stills Gallery, Sydney
1999 Blue Narcissus, Stills Gallery, Sydney
1998 Robyn Stacey, Photographic and Digital Works 1992-1998
Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane
Eye Hunger, video for Artrage, ABC
1997 Eternal Return, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
The Dead Can Drive, short film for Still Moving, Eat Carpet, SBS
The Great Big Piece of Turf, Circular Quay, Festival of Sydney, Sydney
1996 The Day of Forever, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
Lushus, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
1994 Let It Come Down, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
1993 The Light Fantastic, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1992 Robyn Stacey, Exposure Gallery, Parco, Tokyo
Neon Rain, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne
The Infinity gardens 2, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Redgate / Stacey, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1991 Robyn Stacey / Jacky Redgate, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, Shed Eleven, National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington
1990 All the Sounds of Fear, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Redline 7000, Gertrude Street, Melbourne
1989 Redline 7000, Graphic Station, Tokyo, Mori Gallery, Sydney
Pomeroy - Purdy Gallery, London
Commissions and Residencies
Commissions
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2002)
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (2002)
Festival of Sydney (1997).
Museum of Contemporary Art (1996)
Residencies
Historic Houses Trust of NSW (2008 – ongoing)
Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, (2002-2006)
National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden University, Netherlands (2003 -2006)
Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (2001-2003)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, USA (1993)
Awards
Three Australia Council Grants (1985- 2004)
NSW Ministry for the Arts International Program (2001)
Samstag Scholarship to study in New York (1994)
Polaroid International Artist Program New York (1990)
Selected References
Books
Museum, Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Herbarium, Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Cabinet of Curiosities, Robyn Stacey and Ashley Hay, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Features in Books
Artwise 1, 2nd edition, by Glenis Israel, John Wiley and Sons, 2004
Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, ed. Anne Gray, National Gallery of Australia, 2002
In Our Own Image, The Story of Australian Art, 4th edition, by Don Williams, McGraw-Hill Australia, 2002
AGNSW Collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1996
Exhibition Catalogues
Empire Line, catalogue essay by Craig Judd, 2009
The Great and The Good, catalogue essay by Ashley Hay, Stills Gallery, 2008
Beau Monde, catalogue essay by Dr Jacqueline Millner, University of Western Sydney, Stills Gallery, 2005
Points of View, Australian Photography 1985-95, catalogue essay by Judy Annear, AGNSW, 2005
SuperModels, catalogue essay by Ashley Hay, Stills Gallery, 2005
In Focus: five contemporary women photoartists, 2004
Written with Darkness, catalogue essay by Ross Gibson, UTS, 2004
Art and About, catalogue essay by Anne Loxley, 2003
Cabinet of Curiosities, Historic Houses Trust, 2002
Wild Nature in Contemporary Australian Art and Craft, catalogue essay by Margot Osborne, Jam Factory, 2002
At First Site, catalogue essay by Craig Judd, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 2001
Botanica, catalogue essay by Zara Stanhope, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 2001
hybrid <life> forms - Australian New Media Art, catalogue essay by Josephine Grieve
and Linda Wallace, eds., Netherlands New Media Art Institute, 2001
Selections from the University of Western Sydney Art Collection, catalogue essay by Claire Armstrong, 2000
The Art of Inclusion, catalogue essay by Anne Kirker, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1999
Silver, catalogue essay by Nick Waterlow, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 1999
Living Here Now - Art and Politics, Art Gallery of NSW 1999
Fotofeis basic, Third Biennial of International Photo-based art, 1997
Stacey/Redgate, catalogue essay by Robert Leonard, National Art Gallery of New Zealand 1991
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
BP
Brisbane Girls Grammar School
Griffith University
Hallmark Collection
Historic Houses Trust of NSW
IBM
Lendlease
Macquarie Bank
Monash University
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Australia
National Portrait Gallery of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
RACV
Shell
Sunshine Coast University
University of Tasmania
University of Technology
University of Western Sydney
University of Western Australia
