As one of Australia’s most acclaimed photographers, Robyn Stacey has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally since the mid–1980s. Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions; including Know My Name – Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and nationwide, 2020-2022, Destination Sydney: The Natural World, 9 significant women artists selected to present across three contemporary Sydney galleries, January – March 2022, Robyn Stacey As Still As Life, solo exhibition at Monash Gallery of Art and national touring exhibition 2021-22, PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography,
Reconfigured/Rediscovered Melbourne, a major commission by Deutsche Bank Australia, Double Take for the 2017 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Magic Mirror for the Perth International Arts Festival, 2017, Magic Object: The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2016, The Photograph and Australia, Art Gallery of NSW, 2015, and Robyn Stacey: Cloud Land at the Museum of Brisbane, in 2015.
She has been the recipient of major awards, grants and residencies, including a number of Australia Council Visual Arts Board grants. She was awarded a Samstag Scholarship (1994) to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her artist in residencies include the Sofitel on Collins in Melbourne in 2013, Macleay Museum at Sydney University 2004–6, University of Leiden, the Netherlands 2001–2007, the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney 2001–3, and the National Center for Supercomputuing Applications at the University of Illinois 1993.
Stacey’s work is held in notable public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, the City of Sydney, Samstag Museum, as well as numerous university, corporate and private collections.
Stacey is an Adjunct Fellow at Western Sydney University, was a member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council from 2006–2008 and her work is studied as part of the curriculum in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.
Opening Event + In Conversation : Saturday 26 October – 4-6pm
