EION STEVENS
Eion Stevens was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1952, and after studying print-making and painting, graduated with honours from the Otago School of Art in 1973. After his graduation he travelled to Europe several times; during the first foray, he studied at Exeter College of Art, England. Eion has exhibited regularly throughout New Zealand since 1979, and his work is included in important public and private collections, both here and overseas. In 1999 a survey of his work was mounted at the James Wallace Trust Gallery, Auckland.
In 2007 the Dunedin Public Art Gallery mounted an exhibition A Stage Set for a Poem of the twenty paintings Stevens has produced in response to the verse of New Zealand poets.
In Stevens' works figures and objects are set in a theatrical space which is flattened agains the picure plane. There are some similaritires to the work of English artists Kitaj and Caulfield. Eion Stevens works as a fulltime artist and lives in the port of Lyttelton, near Christchurch, New Zealand.
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