Vanessa Stockard. This is not a cat

Julija Kalvelytė, METAL MAGAZINE, November 13, 2019
Have you ever gone into some prestigious art museum, walked around for a while, then stopped somewhere in the classical section, just a few short metres away from a masterpiece and thought, ‘eh, needs more cats’? What a coincidence. Fortunately, Australian painter Vanessa Stockard’s work fills this exact (completely unacceptable) gap in the art market. Today, Vanessa weighs in on some of life’s most important questions – Why would you call an artist ‘dangerous’? How do you get an emotion out of your brain and onto a canvas? Where do all of those lost socks go, and what do we do with the stray ones?