Shay Docking
Biography
1928 Born in Warnambool, the youngest of seven children of a clergyman father and musician mother. Family moved to Boort in 1939
1947 Commenced art studies at Swinburrne Technical College
1952 Married Gil Docking who had just graduated from Arts at Melbourne University.
1953 Resumed intensive landscape painting while travelling throughout Victoria with Gil who was now Education Officer at the National Gallery of Victoria in charge of circulating exhibitions to 50 cities and towns throughout Victoria
Revisited the Western District and made sketches and watercolours of Tower Hill
1954 Further studies at the National Gallery School
1958 Moved to Newcastle after Gil was appointed the first Director of Newcastle City Art Gallery
1965 Moved to Auckland after Gil was appointed the Director of the Auckland City Art Gallery.
The extinct volcanoes of the area inspired a large body of paintings and pencil drawings which explored in depth the volcano as a metaphor
1971 Returned to Australia. Lived in Sydney. Gil worked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
1975 From Tower Hill to One Tree Hill; Two Decades of Painting by Shay Docking opened at the Warrnambool Art Gallery and travelled to six other regional galleries
1983 The monograph, Shay Docking: The Landscape as Metaphor with text by Ursula Prunster in association with the artist, published by AH & AW Reed, Sydney
1987 Tower Hill and other Volcanoes, a survey exhibition held at Warrnambool, Bendigo and Swan Hill Galleries
1990 Shay Docking Drawings by Lou Klepac, with an essay by Hendrik Kolenberg published by The Beagle Press, Sydney
1998 Died in Sydney aged 69
Her work is represented in the National Gallery, Canberra, all State galleries, many Regional galleries and University collections throughout Australia and New Zealand
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Sprawling Tree and Volcanic Plains 1956
Sprawling Tree and Volcanic Plains 1956
Pencil
19 x 27.7 cm
$1,200
Prophet Tree 1987
Pencil
36 x 26.3 cm
$2,000
The Landscape as Theatre (Opera) 1987
Pencil
29.6 x 19.6 cm
$2,000
Study for Fields of the Sea 1962
Coloured crayon
30 x 50 cm
$1,200
Hills at Lake Eildon – Counterpoint 1988
Pencil
11.5 x 33.5 cm
$1,200
Eildon Hills 1988
Pencil
30 x 42 cm
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Procession and Cliffs III 1979
Environs of Sydney Series
Pencil
25.2 x 37.5 cm
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Landscape of my Childhood II
(Tower Hill – Earth Odalisque) 1979
Pastel and acrylic
37 x 157 cm
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Cliffs at Port Campbell 1987
Pencil
27.2 x 27.7 cm
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Bombo Village and Quarry Headland 1986
Pencil
19.5 x 29.5 cm
$1,400
Yachts with Sydney Ferry 1975
Pencil
25.2 x 20.3 cm
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Angophora at West Head 1981
Pencil
30.5 x 25 cm
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Sea Town in a Sunken Caldera 1972
Pencil
21.2 x 20.6 cm
$1,400
City Across Harbour 1979
Pencil
29.3 x 25.2 cm
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Cliff at North Head 1978
Environs of Sydney Series
Pencil
29.2 x 25.4 cm
$1,200
(Tower Hill) Crater Lake and Island Cones 1972
Pencil
18.2 x 24.8 cm
Signed, titled and dated
$1,400
Caldera Wall and Sea 1972
Pencil
20.5 x 26 cm
$1,200
Volcano in the Sea – Motukorea Island 1972
Pencil
20.6 x 26 cm
$1,400
Seatown 1970
Pencil
13.5 x 17.5 cm
$800
Earth & City (Auckland) 1969
Pencil
25 x 20.3 cm
$1,200
South Head Lighthouse c1979
Pencil
15.3 x 24.2 cm
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At Coogee Beach June 1985
Pencil
13.4 x 21 cm
Signed with initials, titled and dated
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Breakwater & Coast with Tower Hill Volcano 1984
Pencil
25 x 37 cm
$1,800
Entrance to Harbour 1979
Pencil
28.8 x 25.2 cm
Signed, titled and dated ‘79
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Entrance to Sydney Harbour 1978
Pencil
29.9 x 41.6 cm
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Valley of the Tweed 1977
Pencil
21.2 x 29 cm
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Hill Near Lake Eildon 1976
Pencil
21.2 x 20.5 cm
$1,000
Palms Watching 1975
Environs of Sydney Series
Pastel and acrylic
77.8 x 97.8 cm
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Sacrificial Mountain and Ash Desert 1969
Pencil
25.2 x 20.2 cm
$1,000
Volcanic Island and Yachts Racing (Auckland) 1968
Pencil
20 x 25.5 cm
$1,200
Anvil of the Earth 1967
Pencil
25.3 x 20 cm
$1,000
Mt. Golden Pudding 1967
Pencil
25.2 x 20.2 cm
$1,000
Small Harbour with Dredges 1962-1964 (Newcastle)
Pencil on folded paper
20.3 x 26.3 cm
$800
Towards Woolloomooloo c1964
Pencil
16.7 x 20.8 cm
$1,000
Boulders at Tidal River c1954
Pencil
19 x 27.7 cm
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Shoreline, Walkerville 1954
Pencil
21 x 28.5 cm
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Shops at Long Gully, Bendigo c1953
Pen and ink
21.2 x 25.6 cm
$800
Bendigo 1953
Pen and ink
21.2 x 25.6 cm
$800
Pencil
27.7 x 18.9 cm
$1,400
Inner Harbour from Observatory Hill 1991
Pencil
28 x 35.5 cm
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Street in Ballarat 1954
Ink
20.1 x 25.6 cm
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Observatory Hill over Container Docks 1990
Pencil
28.35 cm
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Western Plains from Mt Leura 1975
Pencil
20.5 x 29.2 cm
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View from Studio Window at Paddington 1972
Pencil
25.3 x 20.3 cm
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Volcano and Western District Town - Mt Leura and Camperdown 1975
Pencil
20.5 x 29.2 cm
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Tweed Valley and Volcanic Rim 1977
Pencil
22.8 x 29 cm
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Bonnie Doon Hills 1987
Pencil
29.8 x 41.7 cm
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Palm 1976
Pencil
25.5 x 20 cm
$1,400
Hills near Lake Eildon 1986
Pencil
21 x 29.5 cm
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Red Rock Volcanic Lake and Distand Lake Corangamite 1975
Pencil
28.5 x 25.4 cm
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The Landscape as Theatre (Opera) 1987
Pencil
29.8 x 19.8 cm
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Bondi Afternoon, Ritual Place VII 1987
Pencil
27 x 35.7 cm
Angophora with Stigmata 1983
Pencil
29.2 x 25.3 cm
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Hills near Lake Eildon 1976
Pencil
21.2 x 20.6 cm
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Grampians and Blackboys 1956
Pencil
19 x 27.7 cm
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Red Rock Volcano with Crater Lakes, Near Colac 1985
Pencil
42 x 30 cm
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The Landscape as Theatre (Stage) 1987
Pencil
29.6 x 19.6 cm
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The Day We Walked Across the Bridge 1975
Pencil
25.4 x 54 cm
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Edge of a Land 1978
Pencil
29 x 25.2 cm
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Strezlecki Mountains Near Foster 1954
Watercolour
28 x 38.3 cm
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Red Rock Volcano with Crater Lakes 1975
Pencil
30.7 x 28.7 cm
Landscape of My Childhood V -Tower Hill Volcano 1984
Pencil
25.5 x 170 cm
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Somnambulant Day 1973
Pageantry of a Summer Series
Pastel and acrylic on board
93.5 x 76 cm
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Entrance to Harbour V - Edge of a Land 1978
Pencil
29 x 25 cm
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Harbour Entrance with Projecting Sandstone Ledge 1979
Pencil
29.4 x 25.2 cm
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The Bridge 1978
Pencil
29.5 x 25.2 cm
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Edge of a Land: Nullabor and Ocean 1980
Pencil
30 x 25.3 cm
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Tin Pan Alley 1950
Biro
20.5 x 15.5 cm
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