insight.outlook
2023

Why, I asked myself, are those leaves red and others green? Why are there so many different types of plants? And why are we all the same and yet so different? Throughout our past we gain insight into how things work. That knowledge will influence the outlook on our future. The works in this exhibition blur the boundaries between inside and outdoors to underline the importance of nature in our lives. I painted pillars, that also could be tree-trunks, as symbols of nature’s strength. Nature is the foundation for all possible life and is undeniably good for the soul. These artworks bring nature inside so we can keep on letting our souls dangle with joy.
Dore Stockhausen

The edge of my vision - fire
2020

ripples, rhythm and the minuscule
2019

This latest collection of her acrylic paintings references the waters around FLOAT at Lake Tyres.
Dureing the 2019 winter she was lucky enough to spend a couple of weeks on FLOAT, an amazing floating artist residency on the very edge of the lake. Every day was a new visual adventure for her where she would see the surrounding water, both above and below, in a different way.
Her paintings express this changing nature of water, light and physical disturbances.

Walking Pace
2019

Walking Pace is an exhibition of paintings that are the result of Dore’s two week residency at Cradle Mountain National Park during June 2018. She spent her time there exploring the unique surroundings by foot to absorb herself in the colours, patterns, and forms found within both the natural and the man-made. The paintings that came out of this process are not a portrayal of the actual landscape, but an engagement with its mystery. Dore wishes for the viewer to look more observantly at the world around them to see the beauty in the natural and the fabricated environments.


Dore’s latest exhibition of paintings were also shown at Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery from 1st of March till the 30th of June 2019.

Recent Paintings.... (well, they were in 2018…)

Including.....

Three sightings of Hobart - viewed from a distant hill at night, and rather than depict reality, forms and colours are abstracted to evoke the essence of place to create a sense of timelessness. A floating glimpse into the past or future or a peripheral view of the moment 

Also a group of 5 paintings that are abstract expressions of photo images taken at night-time of the furled sails of a very old Broome pearling lugger that is occasionally moored at our local jetty.

And 3 sunsets....or rather, paintings of the feeling of being the sunset: the air, the water. All colour and light.

High Times
2017


 

This series of paintings is the result of Dore's two weeks Artist residency at Falls Creek courtesy of the mountain management and their Arts and Culture program. 

Photos taken during her early morning or evening walks around the beautiful and varied alpine landscape provided the inspiration as well as the titles to this group of paintings.

The Drive
2016

This small series of works comes from an ongoing area of exploration; time, place and the peripheral view. In this instance, driving home along Nungurner road.

 

Spring Bloom
2015

We grew some tulips and jonquils which I photographed, cut and in vases against the night time blackness of our kitchen window.

Then I did these paintings.

All of Dore's paintings are unframed with the canvas stretched and bonded to a laminated aluminium composite panel. When finished the rear of the panel is bonded with industrial tape to hollow aluminium tubing forming a structure to which the hanging wire is attached . When hung the paintings have a clean modern look with a shallow shadow line.