Mining Town 1964
Pastel77 x 96 cmSigned; also titled and dated on reverseProvenance: Judy Cassab collection; Private collection, New South WalesLiterature: Shay Docking.....
Biography
1928 Born in Warrnambool, the youngest of seven children of a clergyman father and musician mother. Family moved to Boort in 1939
1947 Commenced art studies at Swinburne 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
Pastel77 x 96 cmSigned; also titled and dated on reverseProvenance: Judy Cassab collection; Private collection, New South WalesLiterature: Shay Docking.....
Pencil 30 x 25 cm Signed, titled and dated
Pencil 36 x 26.3 cm Signed, titled and dated Exhibited: Shay Docking Drawings, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, May, 2006 Provenance: Monica.....
Pencil 24.5 x 27 cm Signed, titled and dated
Pencil 20.3 x 25.3 cm Signed and titledunframed
Pencil 20.5 x 26 cm Signed, titled and datedBased on a volcanic lava flow on Banks Peninsula, South Island, New.....
Pencil17 x 22 cmSigned, titled and datedProvenance: Estate of Gil Docking$1,650
Ink and watercolour 20 x 25.5 cm Signed, titled and dated Provenance: Estate of Gil Docking
Pencil25.2 x 20.2 cmSigned, titled and datedProvenance: Estate of the artist 1998;estate of Gil Docking$1,500
Pencil 25.5 x 20 cmSigned, inscribed Harbour and dated
Pencil20 x 25.5 cmSigned, titled and datedProvenance: Estate of the artist, 1998;estate of Gil Docking$1,200
Pencil13.5 x 17.5 cmSigned, titled and dated Situated close to Wellington, at the entrance of the harbour, Shay enjoyed the.....
Pencil 8.7 x 12 cm each
Watercolour 40 x 34 cm Signed, titled and dated; also inscribed below image Western District College For Boys Provenance: Gil Docking, 2015.....
Pastel on paper on board46.5 x 39.5 cmSigned, titled and dated April 1969 Exhibited: Osborne Galleries, Auckland
Akoroa Harbour Entrance 1972Pencil20.7 x 26 cmSigned, titled and datedShay was attracted by these huge cliffs (she called them “the.....
Pencil25.3 x 20 cmSigned, titled and dated
Pencil 20.8 x 19.3 cm Signed, titled and dated Shay made many studies of the paperbarks and spotted gums in.....
Pen and ink21.2 x 25.6 cmSigned with initials, titled and dated
Pencil19.5 x 29.5 cmSigned, titled and dated
Pencil 27 x 36 cm
Pencil25 x 37 cmSigned, titled and datedLiterature: Shay Docking Drawings by Lou Klepac, essay by Hendrik Kolenberg, The Beagle Press.....
Watercolour and pencil 37 x 55 cm Signed, titled and dated
Pencil 22.7 x 21 cm Signed, titled and dated Estate number 88.10 Shay noticed this hollow tree-trunk leaning against a......
Pencil25 x 20.3 cmSigned, titled and dated