Info — Stephen Carley

I'm an Artist / Teacher.
stephen_carley@sky.com

My work is completely concerned with context, process and materials. I make paintings, drawings and collages, often on a very large scale. I use the dark room as an experimental space, making camera less imagery and double exposed 35mm. I use Lo-Fi audio techniques collecting field recordings and glitched samples. The audio is filtered, cut up, reconfigured, sequenced and looped. I have often chosen to use 'poor' materials – for example, dust, cardboard, chalk on blackboards, lead, chocolate, ashes, water and other stuff. I work with discarded found materials collected between home and studio. I make short films that rely on repetition, loops and repeats. I like to give the viewer / audience / student, room to manoeuvre intellectually. I'm not really interested in simply making work that has to fit on a mantle shelf, an office wall, a stage or a commercial white cube space, however, I am interested in engaging with ideas that subvert or possibly compliment those contexts. My work is sometimes intentionally confrontational, sometimes intentionally beautiful. Profanities, congested space, white noise, ugly / beautiful, process led – 'making a mark'. I try to avoid associations with art HIStory.

This is my 'punk rock'.

Education;

Foundation Art and Design
The College, Swindon, Wiltshire.
1979–80

BA (Hons) Fine Art
Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology
1980–83

MA Printmaking
Chelsea School of Art
1983–84

Printmaking Fellow
Sunderland Polytechnic
1984–85

Artists in Education Training Project
Leicester Polytechnic
1991–92

Certificate in Education (post 16)
Sheffield Hallam University
1993–94

PGCE Art and Design (Secondary Education)
Leeds University
2001–2002

Selected Solo Exhibitions;

vISIBLE CITY: a compilation.
Screw Gallery, Leeds.
2022.

The Path of Least Resistance
Access Space, Sheffield.
2018

Abstract Memory Remnant A to B
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
2017

Quartet
We Are Folk Space, Sheffield.
2016

Construct Deconstruct Reconstruct
Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield.
2015

12X12 studio interventions
Sheffield
2008–2010

X, Y. Z etc.
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
2007

Dum Dums
The Workstation, Sheffield.
2005

Selected Group Exhibitions;

London Group in Scarborough. Old Parcels Office Gallery. 2023.

Drawing Open. Second Floor Studios, London. 2023.

Contrafibularities. Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield.
Painting and Process. 2023.

Documents. Gallery Dodo, Brighton.
Film / Photography. 2023.

Speculative Proposals / Increased Speculation.
Drawing and Process. Bloc Projects Space. 2023.

Annual Open. Old Parcels Office Gallery. Scarborough. 2023.

Think of Me With Kindness. Curated by Sean Williams. Gage Gallery, Sheffield. 2022.

Catch your Breath.
London Group and invited artists.
Morley Gallery, London.
2022.

Geometry and Gesture.
With Kate Jacob, Nick Grindrod and Myfanwy Williams.
Bloc Projects, Sheffield. 2022.

Prosaic Projects Gallery / Mixed Essence
with Luke Walsh and Lea Torp Nielsen. Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
2020

Prosaic / Mosiac.
Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
2019

Squaring The Circle
with Nick Grindrod
The Circle Artspace, Sheffield.
2019

Metamorphosis
The Cello Factory, London.
2019

In the Dark
The Cello Factory, London.
2019

POVERA
with Micheál O’Connell (Mocksim) and Jockel Liess.
The Cello Factory, London.
2018

Finding Lines
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
2017

Dis:placed. Postal art project and exhibition.
Walsall Art gallery
2016

Zwart-Wit
Kunsthuis Art Gallery, Crayke, North Yorkshire.
2016

Various collaborative studio and site specific interventions with Keith Hayman. Sheffield. 2013.

Can You Hear Me Now?
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
2012

Pandemic
York
2011

Recent Prizes, Awards, Open Submissions;

The London Group 85th Open.
Copeland gallery, London. 2023.

RWA 170th Open.
Clifton, Bristol. 2023.

RSA Annual Open.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2023.

RWA 169th Open.
Clifton, Bristol. 2022.

RSA Annual Open.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2022.

RSA Annual Open
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2020

The Cooper Prize.
Cooper Gallery, Barnsley.
2021

The London Group 84th Open,
The Cello Factory, London.
2019

RSA Annual Open
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2019
Latimer prize winner

RWA 167th Open.
Clifton, Bristol. 2019.

The London Group
Membership nomination
2018

Presidents Prize, The London Group (exhibition prize at The Cello Factory, London). 2017.

The London Group 83rd Open
The Cello Factory, London.
2017

Derbyshire Open. First prize – The Old Station Gallery, Rowsley, Derbyshire. 2016.

RWA 164th Open
Clifton, Bristol. 2016.

The London Group 82nd Open
The Cello Factory, London.
2015

Residencies;

Darlington Arts centre
1986–88

Artist in Education (various schools and colleges)
Sheffield
1990–93

Collections;

Work in private collections in Sheffield, Nottingham, Darlington, Bristol, Cornwall, Leeds and London

Residencies; Darlington Arts centre 1986–88 Artist in Education (various schools and colleges) Sheffield 1990–93 Collections; Work in private collections in Sheffield, Nottingham, Darlington, Bristol, Cornwall, Leeds and London

Residencies;

Darlington Arts centre
1986–88

Artist in Education (various schools and colleges)
Sheffield
1990–93

Collections;

Work in private collections in Sheffield, Nottingham, Darlington, Bristol, Cornwall, Leeds and London