Steven MacIver
When the people leave and the noise stops, does the space become redundant or does the energy remain?
My paintings are a quiet reminder of what has gone before, the form remains as an echo of event. Desolate and abandoned, structures are left empty, noiseless. The form becomes an entity in itself, clarified through absence and reduction, broken down and reconstructed.
Biography
1979 Born in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands
Selected Exhibitions
2005 Resolution through Reduction, Toni Heath Gallery, London
2005 Plural 3, The British School in Rome
2005 Spazi Aperti The Romanian Academy in Rome
2005 Plural 2, The British School in Rome
2004 Plural 1, The British School in Rome
2004 178th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2004 Central Space, London
2003 177th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2003 The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney
2003 Gallery 10, Glasgow
2002 Aberdeen Artists Society, Aberdeen Art Gallery
2002 Marshall Gallery, Aberdeen
Awards and Scholarships
2004-2006 The Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting & Sculpture, British School at Rome
2004 The Guthrie Award, Royal Scottish Academy
2003 The John Murray Thomson Award, Royal Scottish Academy
2002 The W. Gordon Smith Award, Royal Scottish Academy
2002 The David Gordon Memorial Prize, Royal Scottish Academy
2002 The John Kinross Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy
2002 The Scottish International Education Award
2002 Former Student Prize, Gray's School of Art
Education
MA Fine Art Slade School of Fine Art, London
BA (Hons) Fine Art 1st Class, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen