Luisa Stocco
My art practice explores art making as a process to understand the personal human psyche. Current work is influenced by the environment where I live, aiming to express human and nature’s codependent relationship. My methods and materials vary as I work on developing my visual language. I have over twenty years experience teaching in secondary and tertiary settings. I studied arts psychotherapy and have worked as an art therapist and psychotherapist since 2019. Currently I work full-time in my art practice and supports community art projects where I can. I have participated in small solo and group exhibitions and sold work through regional galleries.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Education (Art and Design), 1989. University of South Australia. Visual Art major: Sculpture, Textiles
Graduate Diploma Visual Art and Archeology, 1997. Flinders University, South Australia. Thesis: Museum Education
Master of Education, 2005. Flinders University, South Australia. Thesis: Art as Narrative
Graduate Diploma Arts Psychotherapy, 2018. Ikon Institute, Adelaide.
VISUAL ART COURSES, MASTERCLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
Canberra Potters: 2025 Summer School, Wild Clay, Lea Durie Jan 2025
Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Intermediate Ceramic Handbuilding, Hellen Fuller, 2023
Lindenhaus, Handbuilding Ceramics, Alexandra Linden, 2023
Fleurieu Arthouse, Ceramics, Ashlee Hopkins, 2024
Fleurieu Arthouse, Gouache painting, Lynn Lobo, 2023
Adelaide Central School of Art: (1990-2022)
Recent ARTIST GRANTS
2025 Country Arts SA Nebula Project
2025 Country Arts SA Professional Development: Developing a Curatorial Practice
EXHIBITIONS
Resonance, Fleurieu Arthouse, 2025
SALA 2012- 2025
Heysen Prize for Landscape, Hahndorf Academy, 2024
Works from the Studio, Dentons Lawyers, 2024
Soirée, Charlie and Jacks, Victor Harbor, 2024
Bloom: Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation, 2015
Miniature: Pembroke School, 2013
Narrative Adornment: In Bloom, 2006
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Education (Art and Design), 1989. University of South Australia. Visual Art major: Sculpture, Textiles
Graduate Diploma Visual Art and Archeology, 1997. Flinders University, South Australia. Thesis: Museum Education
Master of Education, 2005. Flinders University, South Australia. Thesis: Art as Narrative
Graduate Diploma Arts Psychotherapy, 2018. Ikon Institute, Adelaide.
VISUAL ART COURSES, MASTERCLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
Canberra Potters: 2025 Summer School, Wild Clay, Lea Durie Jan 2025
Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Intermediate Ceramic Handbuilding, Hellen Fuller, 2023
Lindenhaus, Handbuilding Ceramics, Alexandra Linden, 2023
Fleurieu Arthouse, Ceramics, Ashlee Hopkins, 2024
Fleurieu Arthouse, Gouache painting, Lynn Lobo, 2023
Adelaide Central School of Art: (1990-2022)
Recent ARTIST GRANTS
2025 Country Arts SA Nebula Project
2025 Country Arts SA Professional Development: Developing a Curatorial Practice
EXHIBITIONS
Resonance, Fleurieu Arthouse, 2025
SALA 2012- 2025
Heysen Prize for Landscape, Hahndorf Academy, 2024
Works from the Studio, Dentons Lawyers, 2024
Soirée, Charlie and Jacks, Victor Harbor, 2024
Bloom: Women’s and Children’s Hospital Foundation, 2015
Miniature: Pembroke School, 2013
Narrative Adornment: In Bloom, 2006
