Amy Stephens
31 Aug - 06 Sep 2015
AMY STEPHENS
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31 August – 6 September 2015
Amy Stephens initiates relations between geological, architectonic and sculpted forms, exploring the dichotomy between the object/form and its representation. Using variety of media from drawing to sculpture and photography, Stephens investigates fluctuations between two and three-dimensional surfaces. Her drawings manifest themselves as physical lines in space, her sculptures replicate existing organic forms borrowed from natural settings, made in response to geographical features. Stephens employs traditional sculpting techniques, brings together the organic and the synthetic in her practice, intertwining the inversion principle and the translatability of form. At fig-2, Stephens shows a set of works that meld the existing with the new, where her wide spectrum of textures and materials, her investigation in the natural and inorganic are brought forward.
Amy Stephens (b. 1981, London) lives and works in London. Selected solo exhibitions include ‘An oyster can't read this’, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2015); ‘Patterns in the Chaos’, William Benington Gallery, London, UK (2014); ‘Catching the Big Fish’, Minibar Artist Space, Stockholm, Sweden (2013); ‘Collide’, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, UK (2012); ‘This Urban Silence,’ Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2011). Stephens was recently awarded; AiR-Sandnes Artists’ Residency Programme, Sandnes, Norway (June 2015); Villa Lena Artists’ Residency, Tuscany, Italy (October 2015); Triangle Network Award and International Fellowship to Muscat, Oman in association with Gasworks Gallery, London, UK (2013); Artists’ Residency, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2011).
fig-2 35/50
31 August – 6 September 2015
Amy Stephens initiates relations between geological, architectonic and sculpted forms, exploring the dichotomy between the object/form and its representation. Using variety of media from drawing to sculpture and photography, Stephens investigates fluctuations between two and three-dimensional surfaces. Her drawings manifest themselves as physical lines in space, her sculptures replicate existing organic forms borrowed from natural settings, made in response to geographical features. Stephens employs traditional sculpting techniques, brings together the organic and the synthetic in her practice, intertwining the inversion principle and the translatability of form. At fig-2, Stephens shows a set of works that meld the existing with the new, where her wide spectrum of textures and materials, her investigation in the natural and inorganic are brought forward.
Amy Stephens (b. 1981, London) lives and works in London. Selected solo exhibitions include ‘An oyster can't read this’, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2015); ‘Patterns in the Chaos’, William Benington Gallery, London, UK (2014); ‘Catching the Big Fish’, Minibar Artist Space, Stockholm, Sweden (2013); ‘Collide’, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London, UK (2012); ‘This Urban Silence,’ Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2011). Stephens was recently awarded; AiR-Sandnes Artists’ Residency Programme, Sandnes, Norway (June 2015); Villa Lena Artists’ Residency, Tuscany, Italy (October 2015); Triangle Network Award and International Fellowship to Muscat, Oman in association with Gasworks Gallery, London, UK (2013); Artists’ Residency, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2011).