About
The artist and his art.
Stephen Yorke is an Australian painter whose work is a hymn to the Australian landscape.
Whether represented in the exacting form of a grid, in subtle bands of colour or as intense points of colour, a fascination with the boundaries in nature and the distinction between land, sky and water is reflected in his work. At a more detailed level he is mesmerised by a point or line in the landscape where one colour becomes another.
The recurrent motif of landscape allows him to explore the limits and transitions of the landscape meditating on the marks made on it by agriculture, by water, by events such as fire, and by regrowth.
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Kempsey, NSW and having lived in Albury, Glen Innes, Goulburn, and Newcastle Stephen moved to Sydney and then Canberra. He studied at the Australian National University and at Monash University.
After thirty-three years in the public service – in statutory authorities in NSW, at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the National Archives and in the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (working on arts policy) – he became a full-time practising artist.
Solo Exhibitions
Paintings by Stephen Yorke, Humble House Gallery, Fyshwick – Canberra, September 2012
Recent Paintings, The Corner Gallery, Stanmore – Sydney, 2017
Perspectives, Humble House Gallery, Fyshwick – Canberra, March 2019
Decade, The John Hunter Hospital – Arts for Health Program, Newcastle, June-September 2019
Constructions, The Hotel Realm, Canberra, April 2023
Reflections, The Hotel Realm, Canberra, November 2025