Stephen Young
Stephen Young was born in Godalming, Surrey in 1946. He studied at Guildford School of Art between 1962 and 1964, and at Chelsea School of Art from 1964 to 1968 at both degree and postgraduate levels. Following a spell as Artist in Residence at Sussex University he took up a post as lecturer at Cardiff College of Art, where he was head of department until his recent retirement. He lives and works in Cardiff and has exhibited regularly in Cardiff, London and in Spain.
Harry Holland is a great admirer of his work and writes:
'Steve Young is an artist with a particular vision. His paintings are drawn from real events and places and transformed by a very distinct imagination. He makes a theatre in which the impedimenta of human relationships become comedies, ironies, peculiarities, played out against each other in a world almost, but not quite, like the one we think we know. The subjects are intimate and personal but, as with all good artists, these stories are told in such a way that the artificiality and the apparent eccentricity are a means of expressing the bits and pieces of all of our lives that make up the human comedy. He points to the real and shows us how strange it can seem if we look at it with a generous and loving eye.'
Public Collections
Welsh Arts Council
South Wales Arts
South Glamorgan County Council
Private collections in Britain, Europe and America
Ganwyd Stephen Young yn Surrey yn 1946. Astudiodd yn Ysgol Gelf Guilford rhwng 1962 a 1964, ac yn Ysgol Gelf Chelsea rhwng 1964 a 1968. Wedi cyfnod fel artist breswyl Prifysgol Surrey, daeth yn ddarlithiwr i Ysgol Gelf Caerdydd, ble bu'n bennaeth adran tan ei ymddeoliad diweddar. Mae'n gweithio a byw yng Nghaerdydd ac yn arddangos yn aml yng Nghaerdydd, Llundain a Sbaen.
Dywed Harry Holland am waith Stephen:
'Mae gwelediad arbennig gan Stephen Young. Mae ei waith yn hannu o sefyllfaoedd go iawn a llefydd go iawn, a'r rhain yn cael eu trawsnewid gan ei ddychymyg. Gwna theatr o rhwystrau perthynas dynol a'u gwneud yn ddigrifwch, yn eironig, yn od a hyn yn erbyn cefndir byd sydd bron, ond ddim yn hollol, fel y byd yr ydym yn byw ynddi. Mae'r testynnau yn bersonol ond, fel pob artist da, mae'r storiau hyn yn cael ei hadrodd mewn ffordd sy'n troi'r ecsentrig a'r ffug yn rannau o'n bywyd a'n byd ni. Tynna sylw at y real gan ddangos i ni pa mor od y gall fod drwy lygad hael.'
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