Amy Stephens

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2008 Chelsea College of Art and Design, MA Fine Art

2006 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art (Distinction)

2001-2005University of Reading, BA (Hons) Fine Art

Residencies

2013 Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout, Artists Residency, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, July (forthcoming)

2011 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, August – November

2010 Banff Centre, Visual Arts Self-directed Creative Residency, Canada, September – October

2009 Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SÍM), Artists Residency, Reykjavík, November

Solo Exhibitions

2013Catching the Big Fish, Minibar Artist Space, Stockholm, Sweden

2012Collide, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, UK

2011Restless Nature, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

 This Urban Silence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

 Spatial Territories, La Scatola Gallery, London, UK

2010Aestheticising the Inanimate, Islington Museum, London, UK

 The Rise of the Wapiti, Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Canada

2007Perceived Intervention, St. Peter's Church, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013Sculpture Al Fresco III, Great Fosters, Surrey with Marcelle Joseph Projects (forthcoming June – September)

 Sculptural 2013, Coombe Trenchard, Devon, William Benington Gallery (forthcoming June – July)

 The Lindt Big Egg Hunt, UK Touring Exhibition

 40/40/40, OPW State Collection Ireland, International Touring Exhibition to Madrid, Warsaw and Rome

 009: Magiciens, Emmanuel Herve Gallery, Paris

2012Periodical Review 2, Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland – Selected by Eamonn Maxwell & Pádraic E. Moore

 The Show House, 9a & 11 Lever Street, London, UK – Curated by Emily Butler

 VUE Art Fair, RHA Dublin, Ireland with Oonagh Young Gallery

 Open House, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

 Dividing Line, High House, Oxford with Sumarria Lunn Gallery

 Lines of Behaviour, The Cross Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (two person show with Gareth Jenkins)

2011Synthetic Real, Edel Assanti, London, UK

 Piece of Paper, Madder139, London, UK

 The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London, UK

 Culture Night, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

 Restrike, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, UK

 Open House, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

 Line, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, UK

 Common Logic, IMT Gallery, London, UK

2010Sunday Art Fair, London, UK with the Zabludowicz Collection

 two sides of the same plain, Stour Space, London, UK (two person show with Gary Colclough)

 No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents, The Drawing Shed, Tate Modern, London, UK with Project Space Leeds

 Spin Spin Utopia, 242 Gallery, London, UK (two person show with Charlie Franklin)

2009My Island Downtown, SÍM, Hafnarstraeti Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

 Meet Pamela, Project Space Leeds, Leeds

 The Monochromatics, The Kiddell Gallery, Sotheby's, London, UK

 Meet Pamela, John Jones Project Space, London, UK

2008195 Miles, Project Space Leeds in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery (collaboration with Rory Macbeth)

 Salon08, VINEspace, Vyner Street, London, UK

 Print Basel, Switzerland

 Condensation, Decima Gallery, London, UK

 nearly now, nearly me, nearly show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK

 Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland

 The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2007Reconnaissance, The Empire Gallery, Vyner Street, London, UK

2006Hostel, Keith Talent, London, UK

 The Works of Others, Whitechapel Library, London, UK

 Grow Bag, Mile End Pavilion, London, UK

 I'll Show You Mine, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK

2005Allotment Plot 180A, Reading

 Animated Spaces, New Greenham Arts, Newbury

2004Gaslight Gallery, Mougins, France

Awards/Commission (Selected)

2013The Lindt Big Egg Hunt, Public Commissioned Artwork, UK Touring Exhibition (Awarded)

2011The Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture (Shortlisted)

 Artist's Residency Programme, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (Awarded)

2009 British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel, Gala Dinner and Auction, Work Commissioned, November

  Whitechapel Gallery, Gala Auction, Work Donated, February

  The London Group Open Submission (Awarded)

2008 Salon08 Open Submission (Awarded)

  DLA Piper Art Award (Shortlisted)

2007 Mary Grob Award, Chelsea Arts Society (Awarded)

Publications/Reviews/Articles (Selected)

2013‘40/40/40’ Exhibition of Contemporary Art’ by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and the OPW, March

 ‘The Lindt Big Egg Hunt’ by Baxter and Bailey, March

 Metro, Lindt Big Egg Hunt 2013, by Fred Attewill, 12 February

 Mousse Magazine, Review of ‘Periodical Review II’ by Eamonn Maxwell, Pádriac E. Moore, Gavin Murphy, Mark Cullen, 24 January

 Irish Times, Review of ‘Periodical Review II’ by Aidan Dunne, 6 January

2012The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, ‘Restless Nature’ by Curt Riegelnegg, January Issue

 Art Review, ‘Synthetic Real’ by JJ Charlesworth, March Issue

2011BBC News – Entertainment and Arts: 'Female artists top Threadneedle shortlist', 7 September

 The Independent, Arts and Entertainment, ‘Shortlisted Artists for The Threadneedle Prize’, September 2011

  Aesthetica Magazine, ‘Spatial Territories’, October Issue

  The World of Interiors, Exhibition Diary, October Issue by Charlotte Edwards

  Time Out, ‘Line’ by Rosalie Doubal, May Issue

  Dazed Digital, ‘Poppy Sebire’s Line’ by Felicity Shaw, April Issue

2010 'No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents', Tate by Charlie Independents

  Heaver Magazine, ‘Art Scene’ by Ashley Eldridge-Ford, Spring Issue

  a-n Magazine, ‘Meet Pamela’ by Lara Eggleton, February Issue

2009 Guardian, ‘Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week’ by Frances Stark, 4 December

  'A Touch of Colour', by British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel, November 2009

2009 ‘My Island Downtown’, SíM, Hafnarstraeti Gallery, Reykjavik, November 2009

  Square Mile Magazine, ‘Seeing The Bigger Picture’ by Lou Cooper, September Issue

  Tatler, Exhibit A-List, by Ticky Hedley-Dent, May Issue

2008 Art Monthly, ‘Prizes, residencies and commissions’, December Issue

  MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, September, Self-Published

Public and Private Collections

Zabludowicz Collection, UK

Azam Collection, UK

Munster Collection, Poland

OPW State Collection, Ireland

Dr Richard Sykes and Penny Mason, UK

Private Collections