Stephanie Rew
Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland 1994
Stephanie Rew (b 1971) is a Scottish painter based in Edinburgh, UK. Her primary subject matter is the female figure. Always painted with a sense of ambiguity, faces half hidden with the human form often just emerging from the darkness. The kimono is a predominant motif to her work and she has developed her style by combining drapery and pattern with the figure.
Stephanie has been heavily influenced by the Baroque style of oil painting and utilises a combination of Old Masters techniques with her own. Her use of glazes is important to the finished article – creating an inner glow to he work. Caravaggios’ trademark use of chiaroscuro and strong colour created by glazing techniques has inspired her work for the last decade.
Stephanie won the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Bursary soon after graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and since then has had numerous exhibitions in Glasgow, London and Paris. She curated the first Women Painting Women Exhibition in the UK as part of the WPW (R)evolution movement in 2013. She has been a finalist in the RayMar Art Contest, Art Renewal Centre Salon 2014/15 and Figurativas Competitions in 2013 and 2015.
Solo Exhibitions – Two Person Shows
Beaux Arts Bath 2016
Alpha Art, Edinburgh 2012
Oisin Gallery, Dublin 2009
Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow 2007, 2006
Just Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 2004
Menier Gallery, Old Chocolate Factory, London 2003
The Bloxham Galleries, London 2001
The Aldridge Gallery, Edinburgh 1996
Selected Group Exhibitions
London Art Fair, Islington London 2016 – Beaux Arts Bath
‘New Works for Christmas’ Beaux Arts Bath 2015
’30th Anniversary Exhibition’ – Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 2014
‘Celebrating the Portrait in Art’ – Haynes Galleries, Nashville and Maine, USA 2014
‘Women Painting Women UK’ -(Curator and exhibitor) Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow 2013
‘Grand Opening Left Bank Gallery’– Galerie L’Oeil de Prince, Paris, France 2013
‘Summer Show’– Thompsons Gallery, Aldeburgh, UK 2013, 2014, 2015
‘3 Woman Show’– Whittington Fine Art, Henley on Thames, UK 2012
‘Spring Exhibition’– CK Contemporary, San Francisco, CA, USA 2012
‘Holiday Exhibition’– Wendt Galleries, CA, USA 2012
‘Caledoniart’– White Gallery, London 2011
‘Women Painting Women’- Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, NC, USA 2010
‘Summer Show’- Fraser Gallery, St Andrews 2012, 2011, 2010
‘Spring Belles’Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh 2010
‘185thAnnual Exhibition’- Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, 2009, 2008
‘Caledonian Show’- Contemporary Fine Art Eton, Windsor 2011, 2010, 2009, 2007
‘Affordable Art Fair’- London with Tracey McNee Fine Art 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
‘Summer Group Show’- Oisin Gallery, Dublin 2008, 2007, 2006
‘Group Exhibition’- Holman, Fenwick & Willam Law, London 2004
‘Soiree D’Art’- Chateau de L’Cappelle, Dordogne, France 2005, 2004
‘Stephanie Rew and Alexander MacFaul’- The Albemarle Gallery, London 2004
‘Bloxham Galleries Artists’- The Menier Gallery, The Old Chocolate Factory, London 2002
‘Valentine Show’- The Bloxham Galleries, London 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999
‘New Artist Collection’- John Lewis, Oxford Street, London 1999
Degree Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee 1994
Awards
Cuthbert Young Artist Award RGI Annual Exhibition 2008
Artlink International Young Art Prize (Sotheby’s) Finalist 2003
Elizabeth Greenshield Award, Montreal, Canada 1995
Collections
P&O Ferries, Worldwide
Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong, London, Dubai.
The Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh HQ, UK
Lord Wraxhall, Tyntesfield Estate, England, UK