Jacqui Stockdale (b. 1968) works across theatrical portrait photography, painting, drawing and collage to explore ideas surrounding cultural identity, national history, theatricality, masquerade and folkloric traditions. Raised in Benalla, Victoria, Stockdale graduated from Victorian College of the Arts in 1990 and later gained a graduate diploma in video art from the University of Tasmania. In 2012, she won the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize. In 2014, her work featured in different exhibitions at the Louvre, Paris, and Museum Villa Rot, Germany. In 2016, her paintings, collages, photographs and drawings were surveyed in Familija at the Benalla Art Gallery and she was invited to show in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. In 2017 she was a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award and Martin Kantor Portraiture Prize and in 2018, in the Blake Prize and the National Photographic Portrait Prize. Her work is represented in significant collections throughout Australia and abroad.
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