STEPHEN WALTER

Stephen Walter’s maps and Landscapes set out to challenge our first impressions, exploring the ideas about beauty and desire within the politics of space and the micro and macro cossoms in which we live. Under the guise of traditional techniques, his work reveals a myriad of words and symbols. The fantastical additions, references to history, trivia, personal experiences and local knowledge merge older notions of Romanticism with a fascination in the intricacies and the contradictions of our world.

He continues to use a range of media including drawing, photography, digital, screen-printing, collage and painting, and recently the applying of these onto objects.

Born 1975. Currently Lives and Works in Berlin & London

 

Education

  
   
1999-2001  Royal College of Art – MA Fine Art Printmaking
1995-98 Manchester Metropolitan University – BA Fine Art (1st Class Honours)
1994-95 Middlesex University – BTEC Diploma in Art & Design Foundation
   

Solo Shows

  
   
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2009 *The Island - The Courtauld Institute, London (with TAG Fine Arts)
2008 *The Island – The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London (with TAG Fine Arts)
2007 Old Master Re-Vamp - Royal Academy of Arts, Lower Sackler Wing, London
2005 Be Aware of Everything – The Drawing Gallery, London
  Chance Meetings – Vertigo Gallery, London
2004 Photoworks #2 – Deutsche Bank, London Wall
2003 Photoworks – PV with guests – Mobile Clubbing, The Vault @ Foundry, London
  Window – Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings. (In conjunction with Shot By the Sea International Film Festival)
  Solo Show – Cru Restaurant, London
   

Selected Group Shows / Events
   
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2010 *Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art - British Library, London
  ALIENIMMIGRATIONSDIENST - The Forgotten Bar, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
  Stephen Walter's Map of Liverpool - (Display ongoing), 'Hub' Space, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  Elephant Parade London 2010 - London wide installation
   
2009 Collected Fragments - Sunderland Museum, UK
  Stephen Walter's Map of Liverpool - Display ongoing), 'Hub' Space, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
  The Future Can Wait - Old Truman Brewery, London
  There's Something I'd Like to Tell You - IMA Village, Berlin, Germany
  *West London Story - Thoughts on an Artists Book - Bradbrook House, London
  *Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
  Lay of the Land - 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK
   
2008 In Drawing - Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
  *Blood on Paper - Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  Subterranea - Friday Late, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  In Drawing - Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
  The London Book of the Dead - The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London
   
2007 Mapping the Imagination – Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  Situation 33 – Bleibtreu Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  *Drawing Breath – Touring Show, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore – National Art School Sydney, Australia. 2008 –
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK – The Robert Gordon University Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
  Alles Nahe Werde Fern –  Lookal01, Breda, Netherlands
  Notting Heaven – Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
  *Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
  Royal Academy Printmakers – Print (vb.n) Gallery, London
   
2006 Broken Romanticism – (curated by Stephen Walter) Standpoint Gallery, London
  *Drawing Breath – Wimbledon College of Art, London
  *Drawing Inspiration: Contemporary British Drawing – Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, UK
  Obsession – (curated by Robin Mason), Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
  England Dreaming – 17 Bedford Row, London
  Another Product – Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
  On The Map – North House Gallery, Manningtree, UK
  *Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
  Soft Warm Places Called Home – The Residence, London
   
2005 *Bayennale – The LAB, San Francisco, USA
  Transit Village – Jack London Square, Oakland, USA
  Drawing Two Hundred – The Drawing Room, Tannery Arts, London
  40 Artists – 40 Drawings – The Drawing Gallery, London
  Salon de Freehand – Studio 6 (Rob McHaffie), Fitzroy Australia
  Postcard 2005 – Filmbase, Dublin, Ireland
  Improved: The Post Card Project – (curated by Francesca Gavin), Fosterart, London
  Contemporary Artists Play Pictionary – The Agency, London
  *Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
  Salon – The Hollow, London
  Photo-Synthetic – Esmond Robinson Gallery, London
  Make it or Brake it – The Residence, London
  Minimuseum – Launch Port Eliot, Cornwall – Paul Smith, London
  RCA Secret – Royal College of Art, London
  Fosterart – Fosterart, London
   
2004 *Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004 – Touring show incl. The Jerwood Space, London – The Lowrey Centre, Salford
  25 Drawings – 25 Artists – The Drawing Gallery, London
  30x30 – Vertigo Gallery, London
  New Photography – Sarah Myerscough, London
  The Artist and the City – Spectrum Gallery, London
  Summer Exhibition – Case 1 Gallery, London
  *Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
  Mobile Clubbing, London (various)
  Shorticulture – (Suzie Watson) Gin Glik, London
  RCA Secret – Royal College of Art, London
  Media Centre – London
   
2003 Albino – 291 Gallery, London
  Walter&Craig – (Joint Show with Andrew Craig) Foundry, London
  30X30 – Vertigo Gallery, London
  Christmas Show – Vertigo Gallery, London
  RCA Secret – Royal College of Art, London
  Resonance FM @ Foundry, London. Live interview (Bill Drummond) and talk. 19/12/03
   
2002 Sale – Selfridges, London
  14”X14” – Century Gallery, London
  Transgressing the City’s Limits – (Dialogue with Kelly Bushell) The Bull Theatre, Barnet, UK
  Drawing – Vertigo Gallery, London
  30X30 – Vertigo Gallery, London
  RCA Secret – Royal College of Art, London
  Vertigo Graphics – Vertigo Gallery, London
  Batteries Not Included – Fortress Studios – Catch 22 – The Rocket Complex
   
2001 Ghost – Inside Space, London
  *The Show 1 – Royal College of Art, London
  *MA Printmaking Artists – Clifford Chance, London
  RCA Secret – Royal College of Art, London
  Apthorp Fund for Young Artists, Touring Show, London
   
2000 Group Show – BBC Broadcasting House, London
  RCA Secret – Royal College of Art, London
  Printmaking & Sculpture Interim – Royal College of Art
  Apthorp Fund for Young Artists, Touring Show, London
   
1999   Absolute Secret – Royal College of Art
  Apthorp Fund for Young Artists, Touring Show, London
   
1998 *NEAC Open – The Mall Galleries, London
  Dual Show with Rachael McKraw – 60/40, Manchester, UK
  Absolute Secret – Royal College of Art
  First Open Print Show – The Place, Letchworth, UK
  Apthorp Fund for Young Artists, Touring Show, London
   
Awards / Residences / Fellowships
   
2005-07 Fellow in Printmaking – Royal Academy of Arts Schools, London
   
2004   Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004, 2ND Prize, UK
   
2003 Residency, Artist in Access – Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London
   
2002 Residency @ Queen Elizabeth’s School for Boys, Barnet. UK
  Apthorp Fund (Purchase Prize), London Borough Of Barnet
   
2001   Tim Mara Charitable Trust (Printmaking), Royal College of Art, London
  Daler Rowney Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London
  Apthorp Fund (Purchase Prize), London Borough Of Barnet
   
2000  Suny Purchase College Travel Award – New York, USA
   
1998    Apthorp Fund (Purchase Prize), London Borough Of Barnet
  Letchworth Art Centre Print Prize, UK
   
Publications / Press
   
2009    The Curwen Studio 50th Anniversary Portfolio - Portfolio
  Printmaking Today - Vol 18 No1 SPRING 2009
   
2007  Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2007 – Illustrated Catalogue
  Drawing Now, Tauris Books
  Drawing Breath – Jerwood Charitable Foundation
   
2006 Drawing Inspiration: Contemporary British Drawing – Abbot Hall Gallery, Illustrated Catalogue
   
2005 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2005 – Illustrated Catalogue
   
2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004 – Illustrated Catalogue
  Drawing Prize winner sticks to the Point, Guardian 9/05
  Drawing Prize, AN Magazine, Nov.
   
2001 The Royal College of Art – Show 1, 2001 – Illustrated Catalogue
  Foundation Photoshop – Adobe Photoshop 6, New York
   
1998 Public Art (Apthorp Fund) – Barnet Borough Times 03/12/98
   
Commissions  
   
2009 Business Design Centre, London. In conjunction with the London Art Fair
   
2008    Hospital Records, London Elektricity Albulm Cover - Syncopated City
  Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Friday Late - Subterranea)
   
2007  Epson Head Quarters, UK
   
2002  Queen Elizabeth’s School for Boys
   
Collections Victoria & Albert Museum • The British Museum • The British Library • Houses of Parliament Museums, London
  Trussardi Foundation, Milan, Italy • Deutsche Bank, London • Hiscox PLC, UK • David Roberts, London
  Cyril Taylor, Taylor Owen, UK • London Borough of Barnet Public Collection, UK
  Royal College of Art Drawing Collection, Royal College of Art Printmaking Collection, London
  Minimuseum (Catherine Story) • Asticus Collection, UK
  Plus private collections globally.
   
 
© Stephen Walter