The Rendezvous Gallery, Aberdeen

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

2008 Sir Peter Mansfield ,Nobel Prize Winner 2003, for The National Portrait Gallery, London

BOOKS & CATALOGUES

1999 Entry in The Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945,

David Buckman, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol, England.

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




Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS. Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham. Joint Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2003. This portrait was commissioned as part of Stephen Shankland's First Prize in the BP Portrait Award 2004, and is now part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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'Ian McDiarmid'	'Ian McDiarmid (detail)'
actor and theatre director




'Life In A Day'	'Leaving Whinnyfold'
oil and gold leaf on board	oil & gold leaf on board
102cm x 170cm	height 58cm x width 118.5cm
	£6,850


'Breakfast Bar Profile'	'Centuries Past'
34cm x 37cm	61cm x 80cm
£950	£5,500




'The Lords'	'Before the Return'
commissioned painting	commissioned painting
sold	sold


'Aberdeen Lord Provost John Reynolds'	'Before the Game'
2006	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
sold	sold	sold	sold


'Catching Waves, St Cyrus Beach'	'Montrose Sunset'	'Generations (Arbroath Abbey)'
oil and gold leaf on board	oil and gold leaf on board	oil and gold leaf on board
41cm x 61cm	45cm x 96cm	79cm x 61cm
SOLD	£4,850	£5,500



'Breakfast Bar Study'		'The Wasp At Arbroath Abbey'
oil and silver leaf on board		oil and gold leaf on board
42cm x 30cm		60cm x 24cm
£950		£1,450