Stephen Felmingham
Stephen Felmingham is an artist and educator and has lectured extensively in drawing, painting, print and contemporary art practice on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the UK, including Falmouth University, Norwich University of the Arts and Leeds Arts University. He studied at Middlesex University and the University of the Arts London (Wimbledon) where he completed an MA in Drawing in 1999. He gained his doctorate from the University of Leeds in 2014 reading drawing, place and the contemporary sublime.
He was nominated a member of the LAND2 Research Network in 2009, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in the same year and was a finalist in the Celeste Art Prize, New York, in 2010. He speaks regularly both on drawing and art and design pedagogy and his work is represented in collections nationally and internationally and he has exhibited widely in the UK and in Europe.
He has an active research interest in creative pedagogies, specifically research-led learning and alternative art school models and he leads on projects that work in and for communities, introducing this into socially-engaged art and education and connecting organisations (artist-led initiatives, community organisations, public and philanthropic funders) who are working with the agency of creativity in the social realm.
His research outputs have developed over the last three years into outward facing social practice projects, including work with refugee communities that cohere with the University’s strategic aims of creative pedagogy and social justice. Much of this work has positive impact in the University community as well as internationally, including co-founding Beyond the Now, a syndicated online platform working in locations across Europe, the MENA region and the Global South to open new creative, cultural and political affinities for a post-pandemic world.
Qualifications and training
2014- Practice-led Phd: Drawing, Place and the Contemporary Sublime, University of Leeds,
2008 - Post Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Leeds
1999 - MA Drawing in Fine Art Practice, Wimbledon School of Art, London
1992 - BA (Hons) Fine Art, Middlesex University, London
Solo exhibitions
2014- The Violet Club at PCA Gallery, Plymouth (solo show)
2012 - Peripheral Artifacts, Luborimov-Easton Gallery, Deptford, London
2012 - touching:clear, Galerie Lucy Macintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 - Tocsin Bang - Recent drawings, Union105 Gallery, Leeds
Group exhibitions
2016 - Imagined Landscapes at the RWA, Bristol
2015/6 -Collateral Drawing at UCS, Ipswich (with Sarah Lucas, Ryan Gander, Matthew Darbyshire, Matthew Collings)
2015- Recent Drawings at Plymouth Theatre Royal Gallery (with Joseph Hillier)
2010 - Supermarket - Stockholm Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2009 - The Space Between, Surrounds our Desire, The Event 09, Birmingham
2007 - The Ninth Plinth, Leeds Art Fair, Leeds
2005 - Red October, SevenSeven Contemporary Art, London, E2
Curated projects
2009 - The Space Between, Surrounds our Desire, Axis curated selection - Mona Casey, http://www.axisweb.org/atSelection.aspx?AID=2359
Competitions, prizes and awards
2010 - Celeste Art Prize 2010 Finalist, Celeste Art Prize, New York
2009 - Shortlisted - Jerwood Drawing Prize 2009, Jerwood Space, London
1999 - Winner of the Wimbledon School of Art Post-Graduate Drawing Prize, Wimbledon School of Art, London
Educational experience - tertiary
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic): Arts Univerisity Plymouth
Academic Dean, Plymouth College of Art
Head of School: Critical and Cultural Studies, Plymouth College of Art
Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking at Plymouth College of Art
Associate Lecturer (Drawing) , University College Falmouth, Falmouth 2012
Visiting Lecturer BA Art and Design, University of Leeds, Leeds 2009
Visiting Lecturer BA (Hons) and MA Fine Art, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich Lecturer BA (Hons) Fine Art, Leeds College of Art, Leeds 2004-2011