Euan Stewart
I am a fine art printmaker, studying themes of anatomy, identity and natural history, playing with medium, scale and sequence to produce both traditional and experimental results.
A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Brighton, I have lived and worked in London since 1999. I have exhibited widely, from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition to the Awagami Print Exhibition in Japan, and also showing regularly at Studio 1.1 in Shoreditch. I have been working at the SFSA studio project at Deptford Foundry since opening in 2019 and have become a regular exhibitor at the Noformat Gallery.
Since 2011, I have focused on printmaking and have become a regular exhibitor at the Affordable Art Fair and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
My current work with relief printmaking explores our individual and collective identity, using the human figure to represent an identity unique to the individual and common to all, moving fluidly between separation and communion. They are contradictory in nature. Blurred, duplicated and distorted but rendered with surgical focus. Anonymous yet relatable. Universal yet specific. Unsexed yet gendered. The industrial rhythm of line and negative space create a sense of movement between these states and allow the viewer to project their own sense of self. One can see a doppelganger, another can see a foreign body. One can see the constructive influence of the weaving process, another can see a destructive exploration of the body.
EDUCATION:
1999 MA Sequential Design and Illustration, University of Brighton.
1997 BA (hons) Drawing and Painting, Edinburgh College of Art.
AWARDS:
2012 East London Printmakers Prize Pushing Print, Margate.
2011 Printmaking Today Prize Bite: Artists Making Prints, London.
2009 Lady Charlotte Stevenson Award Café Gallery Projects, London.
COLLECTIONS:
Wellcome Collection, London.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Fabriano Museum, Fabriano, Italy.
Scarborough Museums Trust, Scarborough.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Awagami Miniprint Exhibition Tokushima, Japan.
2021 Where Are We Now?, Solo Show Noformat Gallery, London.
2021 This Year's Model III, Group Show Studio 1.1 Gallery, London.
2020 A Sense of Self, Solo Show Studio 1.1 Gallery, London.
2020 Time, Group Show Highgate Gallery, HSLI, London.
2019 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Woolwich, London.
2019 Crowd Control, Joint Exhibition Noformat Gallery, London
2019 Miniprint Cadaques, Group Show Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Spain.
2019 Land, Sea and Sky, Group Show Ropewalk Gallery, Barton upon Humber.
2019 Awagami Miniprint Exhibition Tokushima, Japan.
2019 Journeys, Group Show London Print Studio, London.
2019 This Year's Model, Group Show Studio 1.1 Gallery, London.
2018 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Woolwich, London.
2018 40 Celsius, Group Show ASC Gallery, London.
2018 This Year's Model, Group Show Studio 1.1 Gallery, London.
2017 RE The Masters Bankside Gallery, London.
2017 Mini Print/ Print City Morley Gallery, London.
2017 Lasting Impressions, Group Show Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough.
2017 Under The Skin, Joint Show Bond House Gallery, London.
2016 ELP Festival of Print Mile End Pavilion, London.
2016 In Two Parts, Group Show Lombard St Gallery, Margate.
2016 Skin and Bone- Solo Show Pie Factory, Margate.
2016 Bodysnatchers!- Group Show Studio 1.1 Gallery, London.
2015 Anatomy- Solo Show Art@ Ketchum, London.
2015 50 Years of Artists Prints Bankside Gallery, London.
2014 Derwent Art Prize Mall Galleries, London.
2014 RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London.
2012 The Pastel Society Open Mall Galleries, London.
2011 National Open Art Competition Minerva Theatre, Chichester.
2011 The London Group Open Cello Factory, London.
2011 Bite: Artists Making Prints Mall Galleries, London.