BORN: - - England, 1975 - - - - - LIVES/WORKS: - - BERLIN, GERMANY, & LONDON, ENGLAND - - - EDUCATION: - - 1999-2001 MA in Fine Art Royal College of Art (RCA) 1995-1998 BA Hons in Fine Art Manchester Met. University - - - SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - - 2008 The Island The Crypt, St. Pancras Church, London 2007 Old Master Re-Vamp Royal Academy of Arts, Sackler Wing, London 2005 Be Aware of Everything The Drawing Gallery, London - - - SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2010 Mighty Maps British Library, London 2009 Collected Fragments Sunderland Museum 2009 There's something I'd Like to Tell You IMA Village, Berlin 2009 The Lay of the Land 20-21 Visual Art Centre, Scunthorpe, UK 2008 Blood on Paper Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2007 Drawing Breath  (Touring), incl: Nanyang Acad. Singapore 2007 Alles Nahe Werde Fern Lookal01, Breda, Netherlands 2006 Broken Romanticism Standpoint Gallery, London - - - AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: - 2005-2007 Fellow in Printmaking, Royal Academy of Arts Schools, London 2004 Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2nd Prize, UK 2003 Artist in Access Residency, Central St Martin's College of Art & Design, London - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY: - 2009 Sept Perri Lewis, Guide To Drawing, Guardian Newspaper and online 2009 Spring Mike Sims, Brand New Key - Printmaking Today 2009 June Jeroen Nieuwland, Shady Cartography - Transversalinflections (web) online 2008 Feb Alli Beddoes, The Island - Exhibition Catalogue, Published by TAG Fine Arts 2008 Issue 3 Lisa Borges, Secret Lives of Dreamers and Obsessives - Electronic Beats Magazine - - - COLLECTIONS: - Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The British Museum, London; The British Library, London; Deutsche Bank, London; British Government Collection; Houses of Parliament Museums, London; Trussardi Foundation, Milan, Italy; Hiscox PLC, UK; David Roberts, London; Cyril Taylor, Taylor Owen, UK; London Borough of Barnet Public Collection, UK; Royal College of Art Drawing Collection & Royal College of Art Printmaking Collection, London; Plus a number of International Private Collections - ARTIST STATEMENT: Stephen Walter’s maps and Landscapes set out to challenge our first impressions, exploring the ideas about beauty and desire within the politics of space and the micro and macrocosms in which we live. Under the guise of traditional techniques, his work reveals a myriad of words and symbols. The fantastical additions, references to history, trivia, personal experiences and local knowledge merge older notions of Romanticism with a fascination in the intricacies and the contradictions of our world.