CIRCLES FIESTA EVENT
Chrysalis Project’s YOUR Inner Circles - Arts Against Gendered Violence is celebrating Formidable Females of the city of Brisbane through this unique portrait performance project.
Jacqui Stockdale will create a series of live portraits, capturing the faces of some of the most formidable females in our city. five days in the window of the Chrysalis Projects office on Brunswick St which will be transformed into a stunning Salon installation. Here Passersby will be able to witness the two-hour sittings.
Formidable Females are fearless game changers, artists/creatives and leaders overcoming insurmountable odds or mold breakers in their field or career. We feel that by celebrating these women and telling their stories through art their visibility gives others permission to dream, to achieve, to overcome and to be free!
This will culminate with a final painting day during the Circles Hub at the JWAC on December 3 with an exhibition opening at 4 pm that afternoon with the final paintings mounted wet on the wall.
“One of the safest things we can do to protect women is to empower women.” Karyn Walsh, CEO of Micah Projects
LIVE PAINTING DATES
Tuesday 29 Nov:
SALLY-ANNE Atkinson 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 30 Nov:
ATOMICX 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
BIANCA BEETSON 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Kathryn Lyons 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
THURSDAY 1 DEC:
HELEN YEATES 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
KARYN WALSH 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Jess halligan 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
FRIDAY 2 DEC:
Mona Ryder 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
LEESA WATEGO 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
SATURDAY 3 DEC:
FAIZA EL HIGZI 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
WANITA HONKY TONK 1:00 PM - 3:00PM
FINAL EXHIBITION
Saturday 3 DEC 4:00 pm - 6:00 PM
ARTIST STATEMENT
“I welcome the interaction, the exchange and the challenge to make a portrait in the presence of a model and an external audience. It is my way of connecting, of bringing people behind the scenes of an artist's practice and to involve them equally. In my recent project, Nudes of Chong, I painted 26 portraits in oil over 10 days from the window of a costume shop on Gertrude st, Fitzroy. Each sitting brought a deeper understanding of the person, whether they were strangers or kin”. Artist, Jacqui Stockdale
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Based in Melbourne, Jacqui Stockdale is a multidisciplinary artist known for her figurative paintings, drawings, staged photographs, collages and vaudevillian performances. She is drawn to the human condition, engaging in folklore narratives, cultural identity, masquerade and ritual. Her portrait subjects include singer/songwriters, Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly and Wanita, the Australian Queen of Honky Tonk and commissions by the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. Stockdale was the winner of the Doug Moran Photographic Portrait Prize and the Kings’ School Prize, NSW and invited to enter the National Self-Portrait Award, UQ Art Museum. She graduated from the VCA with a BFA in 1990. Stockdale’s work is held in significant public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of South Australia, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and the National Portrait Gallery.
IMAGE Self-portrait by jacqui Stockdale