Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part I
23 APRIL 2024 - 07 MAY 2024Notes
About
Mary Stephenson (b.1989, London, UK) previously studied at The Glasgow School Of Art and the Royal Academy Schools.
While exuding a mood of tension and apprehension, Stephenson’s canvases are simultaneously undercut with a distinctive, dark comedy. Bright and highly saturated worlds shift and move between the familiar and the uncanny, which lead the viewer into an abundant space of exploration and discovery.
Stephenson refers to the canvases as ‘pregnant spaces’ where she gives room for the unconscious to grow and reveal its hidden meanings-at times, sun drenched rooms allude to rich fertile ground that swells and illuminates out of the canvas.
What appears is a distinct and mysterious snap shot into Stephenson’s cinematic depiction of ones all consuming and excessive desire to fit in and belong.
Education
Glasgow School Of Art, Royal Academy Schools
Select Exhibitions/Awards
Upcoming
‘With Urgency’ - Daria Blum, Guendalina Cerruti, Mary Stephenson - Ilenia Gallery,London
Piece Unique-Massimio De Carlo, Paris
(Solo show) White Cube, Paris, 2025
2023
Royal Academy Schools Degree Show - Royal Academy Of Arts, London
Absent Presence - Mary Stephenson & Rachel Whiteread - Jeremy Scholar, London
On The Edge Of Fashion - Rose Easton Gallery, London
2022
Interior- Michael Werner Gallery, London
Civil Twilight - Ginny On Frederick, London
Suddener Than We Fancy (Solo show) - Incubator, London
2021
Fertile Spoon- Mary Stephenson & Grace Pailthorpe, Bosse & Baum,London
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