Stephen Quick and Splintered Studios

STEPHEN QUICK BA

My art mainly represents contemporary culture via pop art; I embrace our materialistic nature, which often defines who we are.
Throughout my art career I have had a fascination with what makes an icon, a celebrity, a hero, and if these people even have to be real. Contemporary cultural figures represent an ideal, a hope and a want, they teach us something, be it Buffy the Vampire Slayer, redefining the status of the feminist in today’s society, or Spider-man, “with great power must come great responsibility”.
By embracing and recognizing and sometimes admitting that these figures influence us, we therefore become a part of what they stand for.
My paintings in their very essence are post modern, they are not at all about themselves, but about the world outside the “Art world”, they change meaning and worth depending on who views them. I overtly borrow techniques and styles from the history of art, openly admitting and showing off these influences instead of covering them up with values of the “Original”. I believe in art, as everything else in the world, the only way you know where something is going is if you know where it has been. - Stephen Quick

BIOGRAPHY

1997 – GCSE Fine Art (Top 5% in the country)
1999 – A’ Level Art, Honiton Community College
1999 – A’ Level Design, Honiton Community College
2000 – Btec National Diploma in Art and Design, Exeter College
2004 – BA Hons Degree Fine Art, University of the West of England, Bristol

FILMOGRAPHY

THE FACE (2002) (Writer, Editor and Director)
SOMETHING (2003) (Writer, Editor and Director)
THE BUCKLEY SISTERS (2003) (Writer, Editor and Director)
WHAT TO DO (2003) (Writer, Editor and Director)
THE LEARNING SERIES (2003) (Writer, Editor and Director)
THESE WORDS I WRITE (2004) (Writer, Editor and Director)
STEVIE (2004) (Writer, Editor and Director)
SHOELACES (2004) (Writer, Editor and Director)
WHAT I AM TO YOU (IS NOT REAL) (2004) (Writer, Editor and Director)
AMY (2005) (Writer, Editor and Director)
PALS (2005) (Writer, Editor and Director)
THE HAWKS (2006) (Writer, Editor and Director) In Production
IN THE KEY OF WATER (2007) (Writer, Editor and Director)

MEATBALLS (2008) (Director,Editor)

DIRECTED AND CO WROTE WITH PAUL RICHARDS:
GRANDPA COITUS (2000)
GUY SULLIVAN (2000)

CO DIRECTED AND CO WROTE WITH RICHARD POPE:
INVISIBLE CITIES (2001)

EXHIBITIONS

(2008) Flavel Regatta Show- The Flavle - Dartmouth

(2008) Stephen Quick Show- The Flavel - Dartmouth

(2008) Rumours - Rumours Bar - Totnes

(2008) #53 Totnes - Gallery High Street - Totnes

(2008) Juxtaposition (Pop World meets Third World) - Mackarness Hall - Honiton

(2007) Eye Candy - The Bird House - Totnes

(2007) AAF - The Flavel - Darthmouth

(2007) Stephen Quick Solo - The Cube - Bristol

(2007) Finalists of the open exhibition - Thelma Hulbert Gallery - Honiton

(2007) Stephen Quick Show II - Rumours - Totnes

(2007) Love War Window - Honiton Art Shop - Honiton

(2007) National Association of Landscape - Bergen - Norway

(2006) Stephen Quick Show - Rumours - Totnes

(2006) Flavel Regatta - The Flaval - Dartmouth

(2006 - Present) The Stephen Quick Collection - Art Store Gallery - Barnstaple

(2006) Gallery 22 - Gallery 22 - Ashburton

(2005) Device Film Show - The Cube - Bristol

(2004) Degree Show - Bower Ashton - Bristol

(2003) Honiton Festival - The Gallery - Honiton

(2002) Untitled - Spike Island - Bristol

(2002) Relocate - Spike Island - Bristol

(2002) Honiton Festival - The Gallery - Honiton

(2001) 1st Year - Bower Ashton - Bristol

(2000) Foundation! - Victoria House -Exeter