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STEPHEN SHANKLAND RP

 

BA (Hons) & MA, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007                 Journeys, The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen            

2005

Passengers, Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Aberdeen Artists Society Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Art Centre, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen, Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeenshire, The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh, Thompson's Gallery, Marylebone, London, Baillie Gallery, London Red Rag Gallery, Stow-on-the-World, Glasgow Art Fair 2005, The Garrick/Milne Prize, London 2005, Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, London 2005, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2006, Chambers Gallery, London 2006, Battersea Art Fair, London 2006, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2007, Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, London 2007.
   
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND AWARDS
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Jersey Art Gallery & Museum
1996 Shell Expro Employees Award, Aberdeen Art Gallery
1999 Morrison Portrait Award, RSA Edinburgh, Commendation Award
2001 Gray's Former Students, Aberdeen Art Gallery, First prize BP
2004 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, First prize
2005 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London, Runner up 2005 Associate
2008 Elected Full Member, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP)
COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS
1999
Series of 10 illustrations for limited edition 40 year old Glenfarclas Whisky
2004 The Miracle (Wife & Son, BP Portrait Award 1st Prize)
2004 Laura & Louise Merchant
2005 Peter Mullan, actor/director (Shortlisted, Garrick/Milne Prize)
2005 The Storm (Lyndsey Dawson portrait, Runner up in LPS Prize)
2005 Eleanor Grundy
2006

Bernard Hill, actor

2006 James & Phillipa Lord
2006 Before the Game (Conrad & Casper Paxton)
2006 Before the Return (Hanne, Rolf & Kristine Vaagen)
2006 The Telephone (Dr Margaret Black)
2006 Tiffany (Angharad & Rhiannon Jones)
2006 John Reynolds, Aberdeen Lord Provost
2007 Richard Ramsay, US Amateur Golf Champion 2006
2007 Bob Le Sueur, Jersey Art Gallery & Museum
2008 Ian McDiarmid, actor and theatre director
 
BOOKS & CATALOGUES
1999 Entry in The Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945,
David Buckman, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol, England.
 
COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS IN PROGRESS:
Portrait of Sir Peter Mansfield Nobel Prize Winner 2003 for The National Portrait Gallery
 
 
 

Winner of the BP Portrait Award, 2004

Portrait Commissions can be arranged through the Rendezvous Gallery.

Stephen Shankland (b.1971) is a Scottish artist and graphic designer living and working in Aberdeenshire. He studied at Gray's School of Art and has exhibited widely, including in the BP Portrait Award 1999. The Miracle is a portrait of Stephen's wife Kelly and son Connor, who was born prematurely in January 2003.

 

 'The Miracle' (oil on board) 

 

Winning Portrait

   
   
'Ian McDiarmid' 'Ian McDiarmid (detail)'
actor and theatre director  
   
   
'The Lords' 'Before the Return'
commissioned painting   commissioned painting  
sold sold
   
   
 
'Aberdeen Lord Provost John Reynolds' 'Before the Game'
  commissioned painting  
  sold
   
   

Stephen Shankland is a Scottish figurative painter. As well as producing figurative compositions he also successfully paints portraits to commission. Through both the narrative scenes and the portraits can be found clues to unravel subtle stories. Rich with symbolic reference, the animate and inanimate form these stories in the way a director crafts a film or theatrical performance, it is make-believe realism. In 2004 he won first prize in the BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery, London with a portrait of his wife and son titled 'The Miracle'. More recently, in September 2005, one of his portraits of actor/director Peter Mullan was shortlisted for another prestigious prize, The Garrick/Milne Award.

     

 

     

'Deja Vue Cafe'

'Dunnottar Visit'

'Guardians Of The Bonsai'

'Morning Vigil'

oil and gold leaf on board

oil and gold leaf on board

oil and gold leaf on board

oil and gold leaf on board

30cm x 30cm

61cm x 101cm

50cm x 50cm

92cm x 76cm

£835 sold

£5,750 sold

£2,650 sold

£6,500 sold
 

 

   
       

'Cooling Down'

'Leaving Whinnyfold'

'Hallway Light'

'Centuries Past'

oil and gold leaf on board

oil & gold leaf on board

58cm x 81cm

 61cm x 80cm

61cm x 44.5cm

height 58cm x width 118.5cm

£5,500

£5,500

£2,750

 £6,850

   
 

 

   
       

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