About

 

Stephanie Fuller is a multi-national artist whose paintings evoke strong emotions by blending seascapes and landscapes with an expressionistic style that highlights the human condition and our relationship with the natural world.

With a well-rounded education in painting, drawing, and sculpture from Bath Academy, Norwich Life Room, and Wimbledon School of Art, Fuller has honed her technical skills. Her late husband, Peter Fuller, inspired her interest in ideas, beauty, and culture, while her childhood spent near the sea in Western Australia shaped her understanding of the natural world and her place within it.

Fuller's artwork primarily revolves around environmental consciousness, reminding us of our connection to nature and our animalistic origins. Her creatures and people are intertwined in her paintings, which have been exhibited and collected by museums and private collectors globally for the past 30 years. Tragically, one of her large paintings was lost in the recent Australian bushfires.

Over the years, Stephanie has had the privilege of visiting the studios of notable artists, including members of the Bomberg School, Leon Kossoff, and Roy Oxlade and the sculptor Henry Moore. David Bomberg's drawing skills and teachings, particularly his "spirit in the mass" concept of capturing the intuitive essence of a subject, have been a guiding force in Stephanie's artistic journey and will continue to influence her work.

Stephanie Fuller's artwork has been widely recognised and collected by museums and private collectors worldwide for the past 30 years.

 

 

Laurence Fuller's screenplay "Modern Art" includes elements of Stephanie Fuller's early life and career. The screenplay has received numerous awards and has been a finalist in numerous film festivals around the world.

 

 

 

 

Stephanie Fuller's extensive career in the arts industry spans four decades and encompasses both the UK and Australia. Throughout this time, she has been a prolific artist, exhibiting her work internationally. In addition, she has published an online art magazine, edited numerous books on art, established a non-profit art foundation, and orchestrated lectures by leading international experts in the arts, which were hosted by notable institutions such as the Tate Galleries (London, Liverpool, and St Ives), The Slade School of Fine Art, and The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Throughout her career, Stephanie Fuller has been recognised for her artistic talents and has received numerous awards. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions and participated in more than a hundred group exhibitions in the UK, California, Australia, and even in the online Web3 space through her NFTs. She has been a finalist in prestigious competitions such as the Fleurieu Art Prize, the Blake Prize, Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, and many art fairs across Australia and in London. Stephanie has also worked as a lecturer at the National Art School in Sydney and currently teaches painting, drawing and sculpture in her large studio in Kent.

In addition to her artistic achievements, Stephanie served as a Valuer for the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program and was a Life Member of the National Press Club in Canberra, Australia.

 

In 2001, Stephanie Fuller established Stephanie Burns Fine Art, a leading gallery in Canberra. The gallery showcased Fuller's works along with those of contemporary artists from Australia and Britain, as well as European Master Prints. After the gallery's closure in 2008, Stephanie devoted most of her time to painting and participating in exhibitions in Australia and London. In 2013, the gallery was reopened in New South Wales, with Stephanie's paintings and European Master Prints being the centrepiece of the new space.

Stephanie's art career flourished during her hiatus from the gallery scene, as she focused on refining her own practice. Over a period of 5 years, she sold 150 of her paintings through the gallery and exhibitions across Australia. One of her notable series was "Migaloo the White Whale," a collection of 25 paintings that brought attention to the issue of Japanese whaling in the Southern Oceans and the need for ocean conservation. The series utilised Migaloo, a famous individual whale, as a metaphor for life and the significance of preserving our oceans. Despite the ban on whaling, it has since resumed, making Stephanie's series all the more relevant and impactful.

Flowers

For over two decades, Stephanie Fuller has been exploring the beauty and importance of our planet's flora through her art. She works in a variety of media, including bronze, waxes, and oil paintings, to create large and colourful flowers that seem to come alive. Each flower is given a personality, often named after women or characters from classical literature, as a way of emphasising their significance. Through this series of flowers and flowering trees, Stephanie aims to raise awareness about the vital role that plants play in our lives and to bring a piece of nature into urban environments.The Moon - Although the first moon painting was in 2013, capturing the moon at dusk is a new departure. A few years ago Stephanie was commissioned to do a large moon painting over the sea by a client, since then a new series of paintings of the moon over the sea have come since the artists move to the English Seaside earlier this year. The Thanet light, which her grandmother often mentioned in childhood stories, has been a revelation.

The Sea

For over a decade, Stephanie has been capturing the beauty of the sea through her art. From Australia to California to the United Kingdom, she has depicted the sea from various angles and in all its colors and moods in a diverse and extensive series. The paintings range from crowded beaches to remote and untouched islands, from rock pools teeming with young life to the vast ocean. The goal of her work is to raise awareness about the natural beauty that surrounds us and to inspire viewers to cherish and protect it. Her aim is for these contemporary paintings to remain relevant and depict a world that still exists in the future.

In 2017/18 Stephanie spent a year in Los Angeles preparing for and exhibiting in Elysium Verto - Paradise is Changing.

In 2019, she returned to the United Kingdom and resumed her artistic endeavours as Stephanie Fuller, the name under which she previously exhibited, instead of her maiden name Burns.

 

The Need For Change

Stephanie began her artistic journey exploring the themes of death and mortality through sculptures and still life paintings. She then shifted her focus to painting the sea and raising awareness about the need to protect the ocean and its creatures. This series was well received by art collectors, and all of her paintings from 2010 to 2018 have been sold and are now in private collections around the world. Unfortunately, some of these works were lost in the recent bushfires in Australia that destroyed clients' homes. In December of 2019, as the devastating bushfires started to affect koala populations in Australia, Stephanie began work on a large painting focused on the tragedy. The subject was emotionally challenging, but Stephanie, as a dual national of Australia and the UK, felt a strong connection to both countries and wanted to use her art to bring attention to the issue.

 

Stephanie Fuller
1962	Born Perth, Australia
1982	Moved to London
1994	Moved to Sydney
2018	Moved to Los Angeles
2019	Moved to UK
	Studied
1983	Heatherleys School of fine Art
1984	With John Wonnacott and John Lessore - Norwich School of Art
1986-87	Bath Collage  - Art Foundation
1988-90	Wimbledon School of Art
	Awards
1997	Fisher's Ghost Art Award (Highly Commended), Cambelltown Arts Centre
2009	Waverley Art Prize – Open Prize and Works on Paper Prize
2010	Waverley Art Prize – Acrylic Prize
2011	Goulburn Art Award (Highly Commended)
	Exhibitions
1990	Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath, United Kingdom
1993	London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Gallery, United Kingdom
	Bath Art Fair, Beaux Arts Gallery, United Kingdom
1994	Summer show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
	Coventry Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1995	Perth Art Fair, Delaney Gallery, Perth, Australia
	Delaney Gallery, Perth, Australia
1996	Recent sculpture, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
	Melbourne Art Fair (ACAFS), Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
	Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
1997	Anon, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
	Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin, Sydney, Australia
	Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Australia
	Blake Prize for Religious Art, State Library of NSW, Sydney, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, Noosa Regional Art Gallery, Tewantin, Qld, Cathedral of St Paul, Melbourne, Australia
	Coventry Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998	Towards the Baroque, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
	Melbourne Art Fair (ACAFS), Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
1999	Still life, King St Gallery, Sydney, Australia
	Stained Glass Windows Competition, 25 Feb-25 Mar, St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, Australia
2000	Sculpture by the sea, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
	Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra, Australia
	Floriade, Canberra Tourisms Spring Festival, Canberra, Australia
	Collage, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001	10 Years: a survey of sculptures and collages, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra, Australia
	Small Wonders, Defiance Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002	Melbourne Art Fair (ACAFS), Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Australia
	Sculpture 2002, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, Australia
2003	Annual sculpture exhibition, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004	The Melbourne Affordable Art Fair, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Melbourne, Australia
	The Sydney Affordable Art Fair, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
2005	Brisbane Art Fair, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia
	Great Australian male and others, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra, Australia
2007	Reflections, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Canberra, Australia
	Telstra Art Show, Gundaroo, Australia
	Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Australia
2008	It’s the small things that count, Defiance Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2009	Waverley Art Prize, Bondi Road Art School, Sydney, Australia
2010	Hedonism, The Depot Gallery, Danks St, Waterloo, Sydney, Australia
	Orion Sculpture Park and Gardens, Yass, Australia
	Liverpool City Art Prize, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia
	Hunters Hill Art Exhibition 2010, Sydney, Australia
	Waverley Art Prize, Bondi, Australia
2011	Goulburn Art Award, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Australia
	Hunters Hill Art Exhibition 2010, Sydney, Australia
	Living with Water, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney, Australia
	Orion Sculpture Park and Gardens, Yass, Australia
2012	The Millinery Works Ltd, Islington, London, United Kingdom
	Views and visions: Landscape paintings, Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney, Australia
	Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, Australia
2013	Fleurieu Art Prize Finalist, The Fleurieu Peninsula, Australia
	Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, Australia
	Hunters Hill Art Exhibition 2013, Sydney, Australia
	Many a mile over land and sea, Shoalhaven Arts Centre, Nowra, Australia
	Migaloo the white humpback whale, Depot II Gallery, Dank St, Waterloo, Australia
2014	The English Paintings, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Milton NSW, Australia.
	Beach scenes, Tallwood, Mollymook, Australia
	Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre, Australia
2015	Oil Paintings and Beach Scenes, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Milton NSW, Australia.
2016	Put Some Colour In Your Life, Hollywood LA, California, USA. Film project.
	Au revoir, Stephanie Burns Fine Art, Milton NSW, Australia
2018	Elysium Verto – Paradise is Changing, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2020	Modern Art, Film Script by Laurence Fuller, Shortlisted Finalist in 27 Film Festivals Worldwide, Winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the Burbank International Film Festival
2022	Ken Cook: Out of the Workshop, Pangolin London
	NFT Exhibitions
2021	Paradise Divide, Curated by Laurence Fuller
	THIS MUST BE THE PLACE -  Fort Gallery NFT
	Decentraland, Curated by Pranksy
	METAVIRTUAL, Art Basel Miami Beach, Fort Gallery NFT
2022	POETICS, STELLAR Gallery
	NFTEASE at Chopper Chunky Gallery
	ACID TOWERS DIGITAL GALLERY