UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON
2013 LONDON’S DRAWING YEAR
Autumn 2013
London
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By Stephen Myers
Glass Design Work
FINAL MA SHOW WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART 6-12 Sept 2013 Follow the practice of Stephen Myers on the website address below;
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issuu.com/stephenmyers ARTISTS STATEMENT
My drawing practice has been an enduring one. After a long international career in 3 dimensional fashion design, working with Courtaulds, Enrico Coveri etc . I have now completed 2 years studying an MA, part time, in drawing at The University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Art. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the London Life Drawing Society, and just recently, have been accepted as a member of the London Glass Engravers Guild.
them are artists with a prophetic and spiritual message. Having lived in London for 30 years I have seen many changes and am interested in London’s diversity and heritage. My work utilizes all the drawing techniques and skills from a diverse career. These include manual, digital and glass engraving techniques.
The focus of my drawing work aims to document, satirize and make a social commentary on 21st century London. The drawing narratives are taken from its people, its places, its culture, its hopes, its fears, its utopian dreams and its dystopian reality. My research question revolves around the concept of ‘drawing as spiritual activity.’ The collection of work hopes to demonstrate a synthesis of both my drawing and spiritual practices. My work contains imagery evocative of dream like states of the city offsetting them with brutal reality. Some of this imagery includes the peripheral, the ephemeral and the multiplicity of imagery that permeates the city, often overlooked or fleeting, but everywhere present. Reflections, distortions, shadows, haze, etc. The work of both, Kikko Arguello and Rudolf Steiner have informed the project. Both of Glass Design 1
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Exhibitions Portrait painter. Submitted work to the National Portrait gallery, London.1990. Made 2011 Morley Exhibition of glass work, 17th March-7th April 2011 National Gallery MA Drawing Show 4th-8th March 2013. Rootstein Hopkins. Drawing prize finalist. May 8th June 8th 2013. MA Final Exhibition, UAL, Wimbledon College of Art, 6th Sept 2013 Recent Graduates,Affordable Art Fair,Battersea.24th-27th Oct 2013 Glass Design 7
Stephen Myers MA,BA (Hons) F R S A stephenmyers39@hotmail.com 07855 234677(Mob) 0207 732 5510 (Home) 8 Stephen Myers