Shay Docking

Shay Docking (1928–1998) was an Australian artist who specialised in landscape drawing.

Early life Docking was born Shiela Lawson, in Warrnambool Victoria in 1928, and was the youngest of seven children. Her father was a clergyman and her mother a musician.

Docking featured in an Exhibition of Paintings by Leading Victorian and Interstate Artists at the Australian Galleries, Melbourne in 1957. and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She returned to the terraced house in 1971 which became her studio. She died in 1998 in Paddington.

Publications about her

The monograph, Shay Docking: The Landscape as Metaphor with text by Ursula Prunster in association with the artist, published by AH & AW Reed, Sydney published in 1983 Shay Docking Drawings by Lou Klepac, with an essay by Hendrik Kolenberg published by The Beagle Press, Sydney (1990) In 1987 she wrote Tower hill and other volcanoes to accompany a survey exhibition Docking, Gil with additions by Michael Dunn covering 1970–90. “Shay Docking” in Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting, David Bateman Ltd., New Zealand, 1990, Docking, Gil. A conversation with Shay Docking, Ascent, Journal of the Arts in New Zealand, Vol 1, No. 2, Caxton Press, Christchurch 1968: 20–29 Simpson, Andrew. A journey into the textured lands of Shay Docking in Rhonda Davis and Leonard Janiszewski (eds.), Song of Earth and Sea: Shay Docking 1955–1996, Macquarie University, Sydney 2011