Stephen Chambers
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Stephen Chambers (born 1960) is a British artist and Royal Academician (elected 2005).[1]
Education and career[edit]
Chambers studied at Winchester School of Art from 1978 to 1979,[1] and at Saint Martin's School of Art, from 1979 to 1982.[2] in 1983, he received a master's degree from Chelsea School of Art.[2] He 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.[1]
From 1998 to 1989, Chambers was the Kettle’s Yard/Downing College Cambridge Fellow.[3] In 2016, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Downing College in the University of Cambridge.[4]
He has exhibited widely, with more than 40 solo presentations, including The Big Country at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2012,[1] and at the Pera Museum, Istanbul, in 2014.[5]
His work is held in many international collections including Arts Council England; Deutsche Bank, London; Downing College, Cambridge;[6]Government Art Collection, London; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Pera Museum, Istanbul, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.[1]
He has collaborated with Ashley Page and Orlando Gough on three contemporary dance productions for The Royal Ballet, London: Sleeping with Audrey (1996),[7]Room of Cooks (1997,1999),[8] and This House Will Burn (2001).[9]
According to the artist, his work “speaks of states of mind, behaviours and sensibilities.” Critics have praised Chamber’s use of colour and his painterly exploration of his medium.[1]
In May 2017, Chambers staged an exhibition entitled The Court of Redonda[10] as an official collateral event at the Biennale Arte 2017 (Venice Biennale).[11] The exhibition took its name from the literary legend of the Kingdom of Redonda, to which Chambers was introduced by the writings of the Spanish novelist Javier Marías.[12] Following the Venice exhibition, Chambers was awarded the title of Viscount Biennale of Redonda, and his Redondan works featured in 2018 at The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge.[13]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f "Stephen Chambers RA (b. 1960)". Royal Academy. 22 November 2016.
- ^ a b Binnersley, Lucy (8 May 2017). "Castles in the Air: Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda". The London Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ "Juan Cruz – Events – Kettle's Yard". kettlesyard.co.uk/. 1999.
- ^ rp441 (1 July 2016). "Stephen Chambers". Dowling College Cambridge.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Stephen Chambers". en.peramuzesi.org.tr. 7 May 2014.
- ^ "Stephen Chambers – Collection Database – Kettle's Yard". kettlesyard.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- ^ "Sleeping with Audrey".
- ^ "Room of Cooks - Stephen Chambers RA".
- ^ "This House will Burn - Stephen Chambers RA".
- ^ Sooke, Alastair (14 May 2017). "Stephen Chambers and the Kingdom of Redonda: art's biggest in-joke?". The Telegraph.
- ^ "La Biennale di Venezia - Collateral Events". Archived from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
- ^ Fay, Interviewed by Sarah (2006). "Javier Marías, The Art of Fiction No. 190". Vol. Winter 2006, no. 179.
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires|magazine=(help) - ^ "Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda". 12 January 2018.
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