Practice
Underpinned by geology and travel, Amy Stephens is interested in how we reuse, recycle and reappropriate everyday materials from our daily environment. Using photography and collage, the work evolves through a series of stages leading to three dimensional structures. The artist's intention is to celebrate artefacts in a considered way to generate a new perspective about time and our appreciation of the landscape.
Biography
2008, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2006, Postgraduate Diploma (Distinction) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2001-2005, BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Reading
Selected solo exhibitions Nature’s Stage, Art Seen by Maria Stathi, Nicosia, Cyprus (forthcoming 2025); Permanence of Space, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria (2024); Persistence of Land, Bo Lee and Workman Gallery, Bruton, UK, (2023); fig-futures, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2018); fig2, 35/50, ICA Studio, London, curated by Fatoş Üstek (2015).
Selected group exhibitions Lovington Sculpture Meadow, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (forthcoming 2025); Waking Matter Frieze Sculpture 2023, Frieze, The Regent’s Park, London (2023); If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022, Saatchi Gallery, London and The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, UK (2023); New Things, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (2023); I miss the land but does the land miss me? Art Seen by Maria Stathi, Nicosia, Cyprus (2022); Psychotropics, New Art Centre, Roche Court, curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE (2020); Synergia, Museo Federico Silva, Mexico (2019).
Awards include Mtec Bursary, Frieze Sculpture (2023); The Henry Moore Foundation Research and Travel Grant, UK (2022); NiMAC, Artists' Residency, Nicosia, Cyprus (2022); UV estudios, Artists’ Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016); Villa Lena, Artists' Residency, Italy (2015); Triangle Award to Muscat, Oman with Gasworks Gallery (2013); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artists' Residency, Dublin, Ireland (2011).