Stephen Hoskins has been a practicing printmaker for over 50 years. He is a firm advocate of traditional craft skills and the importance of retaining an understanding of the value of hand making in a contemporary digital context.
His work brings together both perspectives allowing traditional skills to blend with digital technology. The aim being that used together these approaches enable traditional skills and their attached aesthetics to still have a place in contemporary society.
His obsession with Kites. and Aeroplanes began at a young age and is an appreciation of those unsung craftspeople and individuals often hidden from mainstream (Art) society.
Stephen’s most recent One Man Show ‘Flight of Fancy’ was at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong. His prints have been exhibited at the Krakow Bienalle, ‘Behind the Curtain Exhibition’, The ‘Original Prints Exhibition’ Bankside Gallery London, The Royal Academy ‘Summer Exhibition’ and the London Original Print Fair. He undertook a residency at the Frans Masreel Centrum in Belgium in 2016 following a previous residency in 2014.
He has work in public collections world-wide including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tate, London and corporate collections including Microsoft and Lloyds TSB.
Stephen studied at Southampton College of Art, West Surrey College of Art and gained his MA at the Royal College of Art. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Fine Print at the Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol. Stephen is an award winning Printmaker and Researcher and has been awarded many research grants. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE) and a Royal West of England Academician (RWA). He has authored 5 books and