CHRIS SHELTON STOCKROOM
Shelton has always painted since growing up on a dairy farm in the country. He went to Art School, Melbourne University and become a Secondary College Arts and Technology teacher. This was followed by a five year term of Lecturing in Teaching Mythology to under-graduate art teachers. He went back to the classroom in 1982 to just teach and aspire to run the best art department in the state of Victoria.
Since 1989, he has created and produced thirteen large one man exhibitions that loosely follow his creed. ART = LIFE.
When not wrestling with the political foibles and complexities of those who think they know what is best for all of us, he returns to the sweet, colourful and curvaceous things we all need: food, flowers and these underlying female forms within the landscape he grew up in. His most recent exhibition marks a major directional change as to what constitutes the life within his art.
