STEVE MCPHERSON
AWARDS
2016 - 2016 Keelung International Marine Art Project, Taiwan
2014 - MARLISCO 1st international Art Contest - 2nd place
2012 - b-side Festival, Maritime Mix Cultural Olympiad Commission
- Labculture Research Residencies
2011 - Figure Ground Mini Residency
2003 - Shetland Arts & Bonhoga Gallery 3 month Artist Residency.
2000 - Bursary Award - Royal Society of British Sculptors
1998 - MA, Sculpture, Winchester School of Art
1997 - BA (Hon's), Fine Art Sculpture, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury
EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Naked House, Lush North America, New Orleans, USA
2017 Plastic Paradise, Credo Bonum Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Naked House, Lush Creative Review, London, UK
The other Art fair, Victoria House, London, UK
2016 The other Art fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
An undesirable archive, Pie Factory, Margate, UK
International Marine Environment Art Project’, National Museum of Marine
Science & Technology, Taiwan
The other Art fair, Victoria House, London, UK
Gyre- The Plastic Ocean, Natalie and James Thompson Gallery, San José State University, USA
2015 In-significance (SOLO SHOW), Gallery 7, Margate, UK
Form Follows Information, Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, France
Race for Water, Odyssey Event, Bordeaux, France
Gyre- The Plastic Ocean, Fisher Museum of Art, University Southern California, USA
2014 In here Out there, Sculpture at Canterbury Cathedral
De-In-Stall' Fete Worse than Death, London
Summer Show, Victori Contemporary NY, USA
Scope Basel, Victori Contemporary, Miami.
MARLISCO Exhibition Museo Civico Archeologico, Teramo, Italy
Gyre- The Plastic Ocean' Anchorage Museum, Alaska, USA
INorganic, Onca Gallery, Brighton, UK
Art Wynwood, Victori Contemporary, Miami.
2013 Not A Drop, London, UK
Race For Water, Geneva, Switzerland
Import/Export, Tornio, Finland
FFound Woolff gallery London, UK
2012 HydroMemories, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy
Array, (solo), Cultural Olympiad, b-side, Multimedia & Arts Festival, Dorset, UK
Packet Soup Exhibition, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
The Whitley Cup, Reading Museum, Berkshire, UK
2011 Siren Signal', (solo) Light Vessel 21, Gillingham, Kent
Lost - Song (Accompaniment), (solo) Folkestone Triennial Fringe
Figure it Out, Store Street Gallery, London
The Fifth International Marine Debris Conference, Hawai’i
2010 Orange Dot Gallery, London
Lost - Song, (solo) Whitstable Biennale at Kent Cultural Baton
Algalita Marine Research Foundation (USA) Art Auction
Save Our Seas, Marine Conservation Society
2008 Diaries, Journals and Notebooks (SOLO), CFPR, UWE Bristol
2007 One Min Film Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
Regenerator, exhibition, Off-centre gallery, Bristol
2006 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2004 From here – where you are (Solo) , Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
2003 Landscape, The Blue Gallery, London.
Palm Beach Art Fair, USA, The Blue Gallery
2001 Store' (Solo), Thanet Contemporary Arts Festival Margate, Kent.
2000 Drift II (Solo) Mafuji Gallery, London.
Objects of Time, Brixton Art Gallery, London.
1999 Ida Branson Bequest Exhibition’, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset
1998 EX-LIBRIS, Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham
SIX, Hampshire Sculpture Trust.
PUBLICATIONS AND REVEIWS
2017 Dead Sea, Documentary, Sky Arts
Feature, E-squared Magazine, USA
The undesirable Archive, Phox Pop Magazine, UK
Turn the tide, Reclaim Magazine,
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure, Barcroft Media
Killer Cultery, Times Newspaper
2016 Low Carbon Life, Rayli Home, China
The Art of being Aware, Identity Magazine, Dubai
Making art with the plastic washed up on Chesil Beach,
Steve Harris, BBC Radio Solent,
Worlds Ocean daY, Time Magazine Online
Kench, Coast Magazine
Emotional Ties, Zoe Ball, You Magazine, Mail on Sunday
2015 Race For Water Magazine
A Simple Beach House in Hayling Island, Design Milk, UK
Gyre: The Plastic Ocean, New American Paintings
2014 Plastic Landscape, Ecolibrium Now' publication.
Happy lost things/ Happy findings, Article Proc Ne?! Magazine, Czech Republic.
Material Paradox, talk and exhibition - Not a Drop Event London
2013 The plastic Alchemist' article, A very Good Place magazine
2012 Front Cover Image, Catalyst for Change, issue, Resurgence Magazine
Image, Global Monitoring, Drivers of Change Cards, ARUP
Plastic Fantastic' Article, The Weekender Magazine, Spring Issue
2011 Segel Journal article, Hamburg
Plastic Beach' Article, Liv Magazine, Sweden
Artwork feature in 'Book Art: Iconic Sculptures and Installations
Made from Books, Die Gestalten Verlag
2010 Interview & Article, Vac From The Sea (Electrolux) Online
The Plastic Alchemist, Coast Magazine
2009 Alternatives Journal, Canada
2007 Daily Constitutional, A Publication for the Artist's Voice, Issue 5, USA
Succour #5- True Stories' Journal of New Fiction & Poetry
CODEX Symposium, S Bodman, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
2005 Creating Artists Books, S Bodman, A & C Black
2004 Contemporary Artists’ Books 1960-2004’, S Bodman, Public Lecture, Tate Modern
2003 Artist book, Year Book, 2003 - S Bodman
1998 Interview, Tim Marlow, ‘Pause’, Winchester School of Art,