About
Stephen McGrath (b. 1968, UK), is an artist whose work investigates human situations, relationships and environments that make our surroundings. Stephen’s art is largely influenced by the idea of place, a central part of his architectural background. Place is made of Earth, where and how we live, objects, people, their relationships, their physicality, history and mind spaces. Stephen uses a series of projects to look at some of our human qualities such as frailty, power, playfullness, our intangibility, and ways of representing ourselves.
Stephen works with a varied media including watercolour, acrylic, oils, intaglio etching, photography, laser printing, transferring, hand drawing, digital drawing and various types of digital painting. His art is formalised using hand painted canvas, traditional printing and original archival digital printing processes. The digital works, originals in themselves, are created using an intricate form of detailed layering and processing which brings together mixed media including photography, painting, digital drawing and hand drawing.
Stephen’s work is created without any assistance from artificial intelligence.
Bio
Stephen studied architecture at Plymouth University from 1986 to 1992 and has worked across the UK and globally. His art formed an integral part of his studies and has since become part of his architectural philosophy. The artist lives and works in London
Education
1986-1989 BA Architecture (1st Class); Plymouth University
1990-1992 Diploma Architecture (Distinction); Plymouth University
Dissertation Meditations on the works of Yves Klein and Daniel Libeskind
Solo Exhibitions
2025
TBC
2011
Gallery 54 London; ‘Corpus; Meditations on the Human Body’.
2009
Gallery 54, London
2006
ZiZi Gallery London
2006
Rockwell Hotel, London. Permanent collection.
Group Exhibitions
1992
Presidents Silver Medals, Annual Project Show, Royal Institute of British Architects
Selected Private Collections
Stephens work is owned in private collections held by individuals, property portfolios and businesses within the UK and internationally including Dubai, Germany, USA and New Zealand.
2018
Broadway Malyan, London. Infinity
2014
Michael Squire; Urban Forest
2008
Grafton Advisors; Angels ; 5 Saville Row, London
2008
Squire and Partners Architects; The Dance of Sybarus, London
Visiting Artist / Lecturer / Critic
A life in Art & Architecture; University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK, 2013
Architecture Summer programme critic; University of Leicester, 2019
Selected Publications
‘Real London’; Artist’s view of London 2007 Random House
Architects Sketchbooks; by Will Jones; Thames & Hudson, 2011
Stephen McGrath
Mind Spillage, 2025
Archival pigment print on paper
54.9 x 84.1 cm
Edition of 12
Stephen McGrath
Studio, 2025
8 Billion on the easel
Copyright
All artworks contained within this website are the sole copyright of the artist, Stephen McGrath. Works cannot be reproduced without the written permission of the artist. This notice serves as a public statement of intent to protect the work and prevent others from copying, distributing, or adapting it without permission. Copyright law is applied in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom, UK.
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Stephen McGrath 2025. All rights reserved