LAILA Gallery now representing Bronte Stolz

LAILA Gallery has announced representation of Melbourne-based artist Bronte Stolz, with a second solo exhibition planned for early 2026.

Working primarily in sculpture and painting, Stolz transforms formal elements drawn from everyday built environments and mundane infrastructure, removing them from their utilitarian contexts. The artist’s practice centers on ambivalence and open-endedness, creating works that resist fixed interpretation and invite ongoing re-evaluation.

Stolz’s approach reflects a preoccupation with indeterminacy that may suggest the collapse of consensus reality or the continuous negotiation of self within the external world. His objects function as open systems that “metabolise perception,” drawing viewers into uncertain interpretative territory.

Born in Melbourne in 1991, Stolz completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2019. He has presented solo and duo exhibitions at LAILA Sydney, Cache Melbourne, TCB Gallery, BUS Projects, and Disland Paris Melbourne. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at venues including 1301SW, LON Gallery, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, and West Space.

Beyond his individual practice, Stolz maintains an active collaborative relationship with Jasper Jordan-Lang. Together they presented ‘Friction’ at LAILA in 2024 and have shown new work at May Art Fair Auckland (2025) and Spring1883 (2023).

Stolz has also served as a board member of TCB Gallery from 2022-2023 and as co-curator of Savage Garden, a multi-year curatorial project, from 2021 to 2024.