Stacey was raised in rural Southern Alberta, spending time amongst plants and animals, tending and studying the whimsy of the world. Having spent most of her life in the solitude of rural life, it has always been a key participant in her creative process. Her artistic practice bridges her beloved introversion and a restless need to create. Finding solitude is a necessity for her but not the least bit empty. It drives her lifelong search for understanding systems and structures of the physical world whether that be the interaction of mycelium or the current understandings of the cosmos. 

 

Her artwork ebbs and flows through disciplines as a means to unwind her interior world and disperse concepts and ideas into a physical form. Her paintings often float between minimalist and formalist ideals; creating worlds upon a surface that do not exist, meant to lure the viewer down a rabbit hole all the while allowing space to breathe. She commits line work as a means to guide the eye, define space or integrate spacial illusions. Unidentifiable text and representations of the natural world allude to a curious means of storytelling. The story however, always being left for the viewer to complete. 

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​While in clay, her work can be considered maximalist. Play, sarcasm, satire, daydreams, fears and inequities are major components. While function is important, and enjoyable, Stacey is often drawn to create oddities or disjointed pieces that intertwine her inner world with the physicality of clay. Her ceramic work often interrogates societal currents or knowledge of the natural world and highlights potent ideas she wants to bring attention to.

 

By employing printmaking, mark making, glaze chemistry and the challenge of building ever more intricate forms she can keep her mind targeted on her relationship to clay. 

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She and Tayte have established McRae Atelier, Inc. in Dayspring, Nova Scotia in 2024 with studios and gallery space for their work. 

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From 2015 - 2024 Stacey worked in multiple capacities with the Charitable non-profit organization, the Allied Arts Council of Pincher Creek, most prominently as their Executive Director. 

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