Collection of NATALKA LIBER STEPHENSON in a gallery layout

NATALKA LIBER STEPHENSON

Natalka Liber Stephenson’s practice is strongly founded in experimental drawing. She creates images to process her daily experience and the dreams that bookend them, interwoven with personal mythologies and esoteric concepts. 

Building her work involves coaxing subjects from the miasma surrounding and separating reality, memory and fantasy. Employing techniques like automatic writing, sensory exercises, astrology, and Tarot to feed her process and create an Otherworld with transformed figures, flora and objects. 

Recent work has been a purgatorial excavation of a self-inflicted pressure to take shelter, trying to see through the fog surrounding that refuge and reflecting upon an unseductive future. 

By combining repetition and ritual, she builds a series of works that explore her stance on daily interactions and experiences. 

Liber Stephenson was born in London and received an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2012, where she also received the Augustus Martin Award for her use of Printmaking. 

She currently lives and works in Ramsgate, East Kent.

ARTWORKS

EXHIBITIONS

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM: GROUP EXHIBITION

1 February - 22 March 2025

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Education:
MA - Royal College of Art, UK (2010 - 12)
BA - Camberwell College of Art, UK (2004 - 07)

Exhibitions:
-WE WORK IN THE DARK.
July 22nd - August 27th 2023. The Shippon Gallery, Hook, Devon.
-TOTAL RECALL .
April 2023. The Pie Factory, Margate, Kent.
-TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE. Shortlist.
September 2022 - Trinity Buoy Wharf, London & National Touring.
-CARLOTA OYURZUN OPENING COLLECTION.
May 2022 -Carlota Oyurzun Showroom, Copenhagen, Denmark.
-WINTER SALON.
Dec 2021 - Laurent Delaye Gallery, Ramsgate.
-RESERVED SOURCE/TEST AREA/LIBERAKE.
Nov 2020 - July 2021. Zetter Hotel, London.
-BOTH KEEN.
Dec 2020. Coleman Project Space, London.
-NO-MANS-LAND.
January 2019. Aylmer Gallery, London.
-NN OPEN EXHIBTION.
12th Jan - 17th Mar 2018. Northampton Contemporary Gallery, Northampton.
-DERWENT ART PRIZE. Shortlist.
19th – 24th Sept 2016. The Mall Galleries, London.
30th Aug – 19th Sept 2016. Trowbridge Arts, Wiltshire.
-OPENING COLLECTION.
2015 -Cob Gallery installation for 10 Castle Street, Cranbourne, Dorset.

Awards:
The Elephant Trust Bursary 2020
Augustus Martin Award for Printmaking 2012

Teaching/Workshops:
Sensory Drawing workshop Camberwell College of Art MA Illustration 2023
Storyboarding for film - The Royal College of Art MA Visual Communication 2013

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