Stephen Bambury

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Stephen Bambury (* 1951 in Christchurch , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand painter.

Life

Stephen Bambury was born in Christchurch in 1951 , studied art at the Elam School of Fine Art at the University of Auckland from 1972 to 1975 and graduated with a diploma. In 1979 and 1983 he received a scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council , and in 1980 he went on a study trip to North America , which he repeated again in 1984. 1987 he lived and worked at the Victoria College in Melbourne and 1989 for a short time in the region Champagne-Ardenne in France . Between 1989 and 1992 he lived and worked in Paris and since 2009 in Auckland , New Zealand.

Stephen Bambury is an abstract, conceptual painter who reduced the formal parameters of his artistic work to basic geometric elements early in the 1980s. Since 1987 the compositions of his paintings have been based almost exclusively on the shape of the cross. The artistic work can be understood as a postmodern examination of modern art history, in particular Suprematism .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999: Bambury, Works 1975–1999 , City Gallery Wellington
  • 2001: Bambury: Works 1979–1999 , Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

Group exhibitions (selection)

Awards

  • 1988 - Inaugural Möet and Chandon New Zealand Art

literature

Lara Strongman : Bambury, Works 1975-1999 . Ed .: City Gallery Wellington . Wellington 1999 (English, exhibition catalog).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae . Stephen Bambury , accessed September 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Stephen Bambury . City Gallery Wellington , accessed May 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Early 80s and Now . Gallery next St. Stephan, accessed on September 25, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Bambury, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Christchurch