Robyn Stacey (born 1952) is an Australian photographer and new media artist known for her large striking still lifes.
Biography Stacey was born in 1952. She has worked with major natural history collections since the mid-1980s, reworking and developing the still life genre.
Stacey is the recipient of major awards and research grants including the Samstag Scholarship in 1994 to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
She has undertaken residencies at the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney, Leiden University, the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, the Royal Botanic Gardens and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
Her work is represented in major national collections including the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, the New South Wales Historic Houses Trust, the City of Sydney, Samstag Museum and Artbank.
Selected work
Solo exhibitions
2019 – As still as life, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne 2016 – Magic Object: The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 2015 – Robyn Stacey: Cloud Land, Museum of Brisbane 2003 – The Collector's Nature, Stills Gallery, Sydney
Group exhibitions
1991 – Untitled, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney 1996 – Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2015 – The Photograph And Australia, QAGOMA, Brisbane
Publications
2011 – Home 2007 – Museum 2001 – Herbarium
References