Stacey McCall

Naarm/Melbourne-based artist STACEY McCALL latest work encapsulates a serene mood throughout, reflecting the gentle, everyday rhythms that hum through each painting with quiet passion. This sensibility is echoed by McCall’s affinity for objects that present hand-formed impressions or other material traces of the lives lived around them.

From wobbly earthenware enclosing a single camelia to burnished pots and handpainted plates on wiped or mottled surfaces, these domestic vignettes celebrate the timeless beauty of imperfect objects and the biographical possibilities of the still-life genre.

“One of my favourite painters, Ben Nicholson, described his work as being as important and ordinary as housework,” says McCall in a recent interview with Art Guide Australia. “That’s the narrative I’m putting forward in my new body of work.”