Lot 329 - Stephen Chambers RA - Untitled (2)

ARTIST INFO

About  

Stephen Chambers studied at Winchester School of Art from 1978 to 1979 and then at St Martin’s School of Art from 1979 to 1982. He graduated with a Masters from Chelsea School of Art in 1983. Chambers has won many scholarships and awards, including a Rome Scholarship, a Fellowship at Winchester School of Art, and a Mark Rothko Memorial Trust Travelling Award. Besides his painting and printmaking, Chambers has also collaborated on three dance projects with the Royal Ballet: Sleeping with Audrey (1996), Room of Cooks (1997, 1999) and This House Will Burn (2001). Chambers has said that his work “speaks of states of mind, behaviours and sensibilities”, and critics have praised his use of colour. 

Chambers’ most recent major project is The Court of Redonda, a large portrait series shown first in Venice during the 2017 Biennale, and subsequently at The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge. Chambers has a long association with Downing College, having been Artist in Residence at Kettle’s Yard in 1998. He also received an Honorary Fellowship from Downing College in 2016. 

Select Exhibitions/Awards  

Recent solo exhibitions 

2018 The Court of Redonda, The Heong Gallery at Downing College, University of Cambridge 

2017 The Court of Redonda, Ca‘Dandolo, Venice 

Works from the Press, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall 

2016 Recent Works, Northern Print, Newcastle 

2015 Pickpocket, Atelier Rose & Gray, Hale, Manchester 

2014 The Big Country and Other Stories, Pera Museum, Istanbul 

2013 Black Mirror, Ten Art Gallery, Milan 

2012 The Big Country (Artist’s Laboratory 06), Royal Academy of Arts 

2010 Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London 

North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex 

Kings Place Gallery, London 

2009 Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall 

2008 University of Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle 

2006 Flowers Central, London 

2005 Galerie Frank Pages, Baden Baden, Germany 

Flowers Graphics, London