Jacqui Stockdale Artnews

12/06/2026

Who is the master and who is the mistress? While I dance in the dark with painting & performance, a pony lends a hoof. Alas my colleagues become easels, and arses become faces within an experimental fusion of MFA inquiry.
Muchos gracious Verónica Peña (Phd) for posing as a portal in a stable of uncanny equines.

Verónica Peña Faculty of Fine Arts and Music vca.painting VCA Research VCA Art

06/06/2026

On this cold Sunday I release to you another n**e of Chong to warm your innards and get you up and running and off the phone. Whipped up in two hours a few moons ago to a peeping audience beyond the breasted Fitzroy glass theatre that indeed the glorious sitter doth own. Hannah (above) has chaperoned every one of my “See it While You Live Cause You’ll be Dead for a Long Time - mighty Tableau Vivant window theatre projects” I have imagined over the past two decades. So every hour I painted her paints homage to 10 years of wise suggestions and generous encouragement when vision fears to become greater than possibility.

Warning: N**es of Chong will be reinventing itself as a ‘reclaiming of our bits and bobs through the brush’ in a new iteration of live carnal street theatre, of naked ‘local legends’. Keep your pants on for now while you close your eyes and imagine.

N**e #5 Hannah, High Priestess of Rose Chong Costumier, forever glorifying the enchanted rooms of cloaked and hooped fashioned histories and masqueraded play.

14/05/2026

Presenting a sensational look back through the history of the modern n**e in Melbourne with N**ES of CHONG 2022

My first daring subject
for the durational portrait project live in a shop window in Fitzroy was the extraordinary high style local chic Eryca Green (pictured) oil on panel.

10 days of painting flesh (each 2 hrs) followed by a street fashion parade to reveal the best. See more on my fancy NEW website under PROJECTS 👈🏼

BE A N**E of CHONG

Come be Ahn Do’ed but try it n**e
The artist will make you feel seclude
Audience peers through window pane
But only sees the artist’s pain
As you behind a curtain sleep
And dream as public try to peep
It’s art it’s life it’s a costume shop
And then you hear ‘its time to stop’
T**s and bits, curves and bones
hair and prickles, whatever you own
Don’t be shy, mound, m**f or sc***ng
Reveal your zeel in the House of Chong

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Photography: Anthony Rodriquez

07/05/2026

What is an Australian Carnivale? Does it exist, do we need one, are you a part of it? It’s my second year back at uni, diving deep into an MFA practice-led research project at VCA (where I graduated as a 21 year old fresh from country Victoria. Today I remembered this painting, Us, Brother Nature. It looks back at me, behind a headdress of horse spirit and Bendigo spring flowers, cloaked in a blanket donated to the family after the house burnt down. My big brother and I as one! One eye. Is this our Carni? Let’s see - once I open the other eye to join forces I’ll let you know. In the meantime I learn to write…..✍🏼 while the music plays. Life is a ………ole chum. 🎶 🐎 🤡 ☠️ 🎶

Image: Brother Nature, 130 x 100cm, oil on panel, 2019, Finalist in the Len Fox Painting Award. 2019 Entered to the as a dual selfie

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25/04/2026

Thrilled to be LAUNCHING a limited edition of one of my most iconic portraits, in collaboration with

Rama-Jaara, The Royal Shepherdess (Quiet Wild series, 2012)
Lightbox Edition of 5 (2 sold)
119 x 96 x 11cm
2025

The Quiet Wild series embodies the carnivalesque, drawing on personal places and stories to create archetypal characters that subvert traditional identities and Australian folk narratives. This staged photograph depicts a young, self-possessed woman reminiscent of the Infanta Margarita from Velasquez’s Las Meninas. She playfully mimics a ‘not so’ royal shepherdess, with her hairstyle and headdress resembling a ram’s head, inspiring the title’s ‘Rama’. (Also considered Supreme Being in Hindu-centric traditions). The hand painted backdrop is Dja Dja Wurrung, Long Gully Bendigo, near our family property, a few years after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires burnt the house to the ground. The defiant figure, a symbol of resilience, a ‘phoenix rising’. The small Chinese Joss paper dog, her companion to the next incarnation.

This work is part of major collections and curated exhibitions worldwide including






Rama -The Royal Shepherdess won the Doug Moran Photography Award in 2012

For enquires please contact Chapman & Bailey or DM me. The work is installed ground floor in Abbottsford

22/03/2026

READ ALL ABOUT IT 🗞️ The Green Room becomes a dark room in the middle of an art school. Stockdale’s recent Masters crit, presented at the VCA Artspace was beautifully ignited as her masked collaborator united faces and spaces of past and future with an unpredictable present. Twisted music box melody by Here’s what the audience (dressed as students and supervisors) had to say.

“Everything is connecting to each other, repeated motifs and symbols, reference to death and afterlife”

“An explosion, a life force, a connection between worlds”

“Vaudevillian funeral precession tumbling over itself”

“Cindy Sherman”

“I felt there was a real intention in your work to evoke and conduct energy/or life force, directed through portals and conducting devices - animal, human, object.”

“A sense of moving into darkness through ritual, through a return, a ‘backwards’.”

“I love Ma Kelly as frightening crone and matriarch. Loved the sound - so deranged and creaky, scrapeyside-show. “

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16/03/2026

🥇 Winner of a Green Room Award for Outstanding Production Design. Proud to be part of the design team for ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER 2025

23/02/2026

Who is sneaking a peep of my impossible portrait in progress of three camouflaged comrades? You, a Rose or a Huxley?

You be the judge, you decide.

20/02/2026

17/02/2026

Don’t work with animals and children or paint smiling portraits. I do all three.