Stephen Bambury
Biography
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1951
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Born Christchurch, New Zealand
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1972-75
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Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Graduated Dip. F.A. (Hons)
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1979
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Recipient Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Grant, New Zealand
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1980
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Study trip to North America
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1983
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Recipient Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Grant, New Zealand
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1984
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Travels to North America
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1987
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Artist in Residence, Victoria College, Prahran Campus, Melbourne, Australia
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1988
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Awarded Inaugural Möet and Chandon New Zealand Art
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1989
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Fellowship
Study/Travel in Europe
Residence and studio in Champagne, Ardenne, France
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1989-1992
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Lives and works in Paris, France
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2000
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First monograph published
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2009
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Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
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Solo Exhibitions
2011
| You Are Here, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
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| Stephen Bambury, Olsdhewski & Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
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2009
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Room for painting Room for paper, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
The painting is at the wall, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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2008
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Considering Wittgenstein, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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2007
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Stephen Bambury Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
(Jensen Project)
Stephen Bambury- For the People of Auckland City, Jensen, Auckland, New Zealand
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2006
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Bambury, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Ghost Paintings, Mark Hutchins Gallery, New Zealand. Jensen Project
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2005
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Works from the Viba studio, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Ngaumatau Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand. Jensen Project
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2004
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Blind Painting Painting Blind Jensen Gallery, Auckland
Stephen Bambury, Keleia Foundation, Lujubiana, Slovenia
Room for Reflection, Jar, Auckland, New Zealand
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
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2002
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Stephen Bambury, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Sienska Serija [Siena Series], Trnovo, Slovenia.
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2001
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Bambury: Works 1979 – 1999, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand*
Bambury, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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2000
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DIY Stephen Bambury, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland Gallery, New Zealand
Stephen Bambury, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1999
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Bambury: Works 1979 – 1999, City Gallery, New Zealand*
Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand*
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1998
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Siena, Jensen Gallery, New Zealand*
Stephen Bambury, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1997
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Necessary Correction, an Artists Project Exhibition (with Colin
McCahon and Helmut Federle) Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland*
Bambury, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1996
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Colour Works, Jensen Gallery, New Zealand
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1995
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Site Works – A Work in Six Parts, (1981), CBD Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Jensen Gallery, New Zealand
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1994
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
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1993
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Stephen Bambury, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Stephen Bambury,Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Stephen Bambury, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1992
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Two Rooms Four Paintings, Store 5, Melbourne, Australia
Double Take, Gow Langsford Gallery, New Zealand
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1991
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Stiftung fur konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany*
Paintings 1989 – 1991, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Paintings from France, Jonathan Jensen Gallery,Christchurch, New Zealand
Paintings and Works on Paper, Passages/Centre d’Art Contemporain, Troyes, France*
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1990
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Recent Works on Paper from France, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1989
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Paintings, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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1988
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Paintings and Works on Paper, 312 Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Used Geometries (Part I), Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand*
Used Geometries (Part II), Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1987
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Stephen Bambury, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1986
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Looking at the dance and other related paintings 1980-86, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1985
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Stephen Bambury, Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1983
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New Paintings, Petar James Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1981
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Site Works, Janne Land Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Site Works- A Work in Six Parts, CBD Gallery, Sydney, Australia
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1980
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Site Works and Area Paintings, Peter Webb Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Area Series, Elva Bett Gallery, New Zealand
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1979
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Selected Paintings from the Area Series, Peter Webb Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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1978
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Small Paintings 1977-78, Gallery Data, Auckland, New Zealand
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1977
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Stephen Bambury: Twelve Paintings, Gallery Data, Auckland
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1976
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Stephen Bambury, Victoria University Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Canterbury University, Christchurch
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1975
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Tetragonal Series, Petar James Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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Recent Group Exhibitions
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2009
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even the small take the wall, Intermezzo 01, Olschewski & Behm,
Frankfurt, Germany
mehrlicht, Olschewski & Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
Room for painting Room for paper, George Lawson Gallery, Shasta
College, CA, USA
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2008
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20/20 Jensen Gallery Auckland, New Zealand
Abstraction 7, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
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2007
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Headspace, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
20 Years On, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
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2006
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C6H10O5, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
landscape inscape, St Paul’s St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Detox, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
We Set Out One Morning, The BNZ Art Collection, Wellington City Art Gallery*
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2005
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Lux, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Store 5 is.., Anna Shwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
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2004
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Bambury, Nixon, Paintings, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
C6H10O5, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Six Degrees of Separation, Mark Hutchins Gallery, New Zealand*
IS/NZ, Kunstverein Kreis Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany*
There’s Joy in Repetition, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Representation and Reaction: Modernism and the New Zealand Landscape Tradition, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland New Zealand
ARCO 04, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Wien, Austria
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2003
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Lunchbox, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
XMAS03, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Vuletic and His Circle, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand*
Paintings by Tony Lane and Stephen Bambury, Ngaumatau Gallery, Arrowtown, New Zealand
Farben, (including John Armleder, Bernard Frize, Martina
Klein, Winston Roeth, Jim Speers, Gunter Umberg, Elizabeth Vary),
Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Signs and Wonders He Tohu He Ohorere, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, New Zealand
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2002
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Points of Orientation, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2x2 ,2002 2, Jonathon Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Representation and Reaction:Moderism and the New Zealand
Landscape Tradition, Sargent Art Gallery Wanganui and traveling New Zealand
Crossing Cultures, Kunsthaus Muerz, Austria
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2001
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Six Degrees of Separation, SOFA (University of Canterbury), Christchurch, New Zealand (with Jensen Gallery)
Six Degrees of Separation, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand*
XIII.Telekomovi Mednarodni Slikarski Tedni, The Keleia Foundation, Piran
The Eighties and Now, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
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2000
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Stephen Bambury, John Nixon, Drawings, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Projects and Public Commissions
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2006
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Zeigen, Karen Sander (audio exhibition) Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria 2005
Sightline, Lumley Tower, Auckland, New Zealand
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2003
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Telling A Piece of Art, Karen Sander (email exhibition),
Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand & Dunedin Public Art
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
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1999
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Y2K FLAG, (koha [gift] to the people of Rongopai, on the occasion of Stations of Earthbound Ghosts, Gisbourne, New Zealand) Rongopai Marae, Gisborne, New Zealand
Useful Happy, Printed work (card) for the occasion of a senior
student address by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Auckland, New
Zealand (event commissioned by Leigh Davis)
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Collections
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand
Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
Bank of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Fletcher Challenge Corporation, Wellington/Auckland, New Zealand
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Prospect Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Victoria College, Melbourne, Australia
Moet & Chandon Art Foundation, Epernay, France
Fay Richwhite, Auckland, New Zealand
Ville de Bretigny-sur-Orge, France
Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Boys Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand
Stiftung fur konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Power Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Deutsche Bank, Auckland, New Zealand
Air New Zealand, Sydney, Australia Also represented in private collections in New Zealand, Australia, North America, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and France. |
