Stephen Chambers, RA
Chambers in 2017
NationalityBritish

Stephen Chambers (born 1960) is a British artist and Royal Academician (elected 2005).[1]

Education and career

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Stephen Chambers RA (b. 1960)". Royal Academy. 22 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 Binnersley, Lucy (8 May 2017). "Castles in the Air: Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda". The London Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Juan Cruz – Events – Kettle's Yard". kettlesyard.co.uk/. 1999.
  4. ↑ rp441 (1 July 2016). "Stephen Chambers". Dowling College Cambridge.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Stephen Chambers". en.peramuzesi.org.tr. 7 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Stephen Chambers – Collection Database – Kettle's Yard". kettlesyard.co.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sleeping with Audrey".
  8. ↑ "Room of Cooks - Stephen Chambers RA".
  9. ↑ "This House will Burn - Stephen Chambers RA".
  10. ↑ Sooke, Alastair (14 May 2017). "Stephen Chambers and the Kingdom of Redonda: art's biggest in-joke?". The Telegraph.
  11. ↑ "La Biennale di Venezia - Collateral Events". Archived from the original on 29 April 2017. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  12. ↑ 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)
  13. ↑ "Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda". 12 January 2018.
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