Norman Stevens
1937 - 1988
Norman Stevens, printmaker and painter, born in Bradford, where he assisted his father in his work as a signwriter.
He studied at Bradford School of Art, 1952-57 alongside other students who later became known as the ‘Bradford Mafia’, including David Hockney, David Oxtoby, Mike Vaughan, and John Loker. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Art for a further three years and won the Lloyd Landscape Scholarship and the Abbey Minor Travelling Scholarship.
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Stevens taught at Manchester College of Art and Design, Maidstone College of Art and became Head of Fine Art at Hornsey College of Art before becoming a Gregory Fellow at Leeds University (1974-75). He gave up teaching in 1973 to become a full-time artist with Mezzotint printmaking his speciality.
He won the Chichester Arts Festival Prize (1975) and an award at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, (1983). He also exhibited regularly at the British International Print Biennale in Bradford being a prize winner there in 1979 and 1982. Abroad, his prints were shown at Geneva (1974), at a British Council Touring Exhibition of Scandinavia (1977) and, in 1982, at the European Print Biennale at Baden Baden and the Bilbao Print Biennale. Other exhibiting venues included the Camden Arts Centre, Hanover Gallery, Arnolfini Gallery and art galleries in Italy and Switzerland.
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