‘I am only an ocean away’
SOLO EXHIBITION 2025
Melbourne artist Stella Greig unveils her latest solo exhibition in May, 2025
Through her distinctive artistic vision, Stella transforms these vast waters into powerful metaphors for longing, connection, and resilience, offering intimate interpretations of her own emotional journey across geographic divides.
The exhibition presents a series of three thematic perspectives and spaces, on separation and unity, where each ocean becomes a canvas for Stella's raw emotional expressions.
‘I've tried to capture that distinctive Mediterranean blue that feels like home to me—where lagoons, shores and islands meet in endless conversation. These paintings hold my family narratives, stories shared, traditions that travelled across waters but still live within me every day.’ Stella
Artwork below. ‘You are my vessel in the sea’.
Acrylic on canvas
192cm x 119cm
OCEAN ROOM ONE
“You are my vessel in the sea, journey with me as I travel the oceans to find you. ”
‘Anchor me to your heart’
Acrylic on canvas 192cm x 122 xcm
OCEAN ROOM TWO
On display in this space is a series of paintings about the reef of Okinawa and the connections to family and my first grandson. The visits to the beach collecting found objects likes stones and pebbles, are significant to connect me to the context of time and place. These memories are also about the fragility of those reefs and the seas of Okinawa Japan.
‘The Reef paintings also reveal the bonds of family that transcend distance, connecting me to my grandson and family in Japan—how absence can create presence, and separation can forge new forms of intimacy.’
OCEAN ROOM THREE
Shores of My Youth in Mordialloc
The "Bay of Mordialloc" captures that rare magic where memory crystallizes into color and form—where the blue sea of my childhood summers stretches toward an unwavering horizon that divides the world into perfect halves of water and sky.
The bold palette sings with the unrestrained joy of youth: cobalt waters deepening to ultramarine in the distance, the occasional flash of a red or yellow hull creating punches of delightful contrast against the dominant blues. The boats of Mordialloc Bay, rendered in strokes both confident and celebratory, embody that perfect freedom of childhood when time moved differently and every ripple on the water's surface held the promise of adventure just beyond the breakwater.
Installation of Ocean room Three at Studio59 Artspace Mordialloc