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.           LINK:Bridgeman Art LibraryStephen Finer paintings in Bridgeman Art Library

 


.    2024-25   'Paintings of Seán Hewitt and other People' until 24 January 2025: exhibition catalogue

.             LINK: Vogue video 'Iman's Catskill's Home is Full of Beautiful Artistic Odes to David Bowie'

 

.               link:Art of London Augmented Art Gallery-David BowieArt of London Augmented Art Gallery

 

 

 

.             face mask designed by Ron Arad of David Bowie by Stephen Finer sold by National Portrait Gallery

 

 

.     LINK:  Icons Trail National Portrait Gallery, 2019

 

 

.     LINK: Bridgeman Contemporary Artist Stephen Finer’s Portraits of David Bowie Nov 2017

 

 

.     LINK:DB 2 photos copyright: S FinerArt UK story: 'Stephen Finer: Painting David Bowie'

 


. LINK: review by Tristan Quinn of  'A Portrait of Bowie', Times Literary Supplement, 2 Dec 2016

.   LINK: 'A Portrait of Bowie', Brian Hiatt  Octopus Books    .LINK: Stephen Finer,'A Portrait of Bowie'


                                                                                    


                                                 
                                                      

 link:YouTube video image2015 exhibition YouTube

 

 

link:stephenfiner_com_files/~sfiner_files/David%2520Bowie%25201994.jpgDavid Bowie National Portrait Gallery

 

link: YouTube:David Bowie and Iman

         David Bowie with his portrait (his left) now in the National Portrait Gallery  copyright Stephen Finer

 

 

 link:Facebook-Stephen Finer artist

 

 

 

 

 

 link:Duncan Hume Dancing 'I n t e r v i e w  M a g a z i n e'  N Y C

 

 

 link: Stylish Fascinators-David Bowie @ V&A and National Portrait Gallery 

 
 
 

         Naked woman,left hand panel of a diptych by Stephen FinerNaked man, left hand panel of a diptych by Stephen FinerNaked woman and naked man (diptych)

 

 

         


 

  link:Lucian Freud, Frank & Julia Auerbach, R.B.Kitaj, Stephen Finer, National Portrait Gallery                    photo credit:Max Kitaj © R.B.Kitaj  Estate         

                              

            Head of Stephen Finer by © Frank Auerbach  

              Head of Stephen Finer by © Frank Auerbach, oil on board   

                                                            


SELECTED MIXED EXHIBITIONS 
 

1980          
British Art 1940-80 from the Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
1984          
Collazione Inglese ll, Venice Biennale, Italy

1985          
New Art 2, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

1990          
Academician’s Choice -Finer chosen by Kitaj, Mall Galleries London, The Eye Gallery, Bristol

1993-94     
The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery London
1996          
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London - Finer invited by Martin Gayford 

1997-98     
Men on Women, Oriel Theatr Clwyd, Bodelwyddan Castle & School of Art Museum & Art Gallery, Aberystwyth

1998          
50 Contemporary Self Portraits, Six Chapel Row Bath

2000-01
Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900 to 2000 National Portrait Gallery London
2003         
The National Portrait Gallery Collects, Bodelwyddan Castle, Wales
2006         
‘An American Abroad Sandra Fisher and her School of London Friends’, New York Studio School,  New York
2011         
'The Art of Giving', Towner, Sussex

2013         
'People and Portraits', Towner, Eastbourne, Sussex
'Artists Make Faces', Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

2014-16    
'In the Frame: Plymouth's Portraits Revealed', Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

2016

'Perspectives On...Portraits', 2p.m. Sunday 17 January 2016, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex 
 
'Bowie Collector'      .link:Head of a woman        .link:Woman's head, 1991Woman's head (RT) 
 Sotheby's, London 1-10 November 2016   
2019
'Icons Trail', National Portrait Gallery
‘Figure Study ll', Towner Gallery, Eastbourne 26 Jan - 6 May 2019
2021
Augmented Reality Art Gallery, Art of London
2023
Freedom from Torture, Sotheby's 

 


 

 Patrick Garland (watercolour)                                     Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin                        
 
COLLECTIONS
 
Arts Council
Atkinson Art Gallery
The British Council
Contemporary Art Society
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Magdalene College Cambridge
National Portrait Gallery
Pallant House Gallery
The Box, Plymouth
Towner Gallery
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery
University of Sussex

loan to National Lottery Charities Board from Arts Council

private collections in England, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland & America
 

 


                                    link:Kitaj with his hand on his head, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtKitaj with his hand on his head, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1981    Four Vine Lane, London

1982    Four Vine Lane, London

1985    Four Vine Lane, London

1986    Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

1988    Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

1989    Berkeley Square Gallery, London

1992    Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London                 

1994    Woodlands Art Gallery

1995    Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

1998    'Heads', Agnew's, London

1999    'Sir Morris Finer' & other paintings, Agnew's, London

2001    Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Sussex

2002    'Stephen Finer: PEOPLE', Charleston, Sussex (opened by Prof Norbert Lynton) 

2004    Art Space Gallery, London

2010    link: 'Paintings and Watercolours', Art Space Gallery, London   catalogue: Stephen Finer by Harry Diamond

2012    link: 'Duncan Hume Dancing and Other People', Art Space Gallery, London

2015    link: 'Merlyn Driver recording and other paintings', Art Space Gallery, London

2020    Virtual exhibition:'STEPHEN FINER:PAINTINGS THAT CAPTURE', Masterpiece Art

2023    'Portrait of the Day' David Bowie by Stephen Finer, National Portrait Gallery London

2024-25 link: 'Paintings of Seán Hewitt and other People', Art Space Gallery



 

 stephenfiner_com_files/~sfiner_files/woman%2520on%2520a%2520banquette.jpg Woman on a banquette 




SELECTED ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

‘Portraits that Capture the Prizes‘, 'Finer...is as distinguished as any painter of his generation', William Packer, Financial Times,Thursday June 5 1986
‘Artists of the Day‘, Art Monthly, Margaret Garlake, June 1986 
‘Spotlight: Stephen Finer‘, Robin Gibson, Modern Painters vol 4 No 4 1992
‘Article of Faith’, Colin Wiggins, Art Review, Summer Issue 1994
‘Stephen Finer: Presence and Identity’, Martin Golding, Modern Painters Spring 2000
‘The Fame of the Pose’, Hugh Pearman, Sunday Times Magazine, 22 October 2000
link: 'Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces' Robin Gibson; introduction by Norbert Lynton, National Portrait Gallery 2000
‘Intimacy and Mortality: Finer's People' by Robin Gibson, 2004

link:Duncan Hume Dancing Interview Magazine: Armchair Traveler, NYC, 2012
 
link: DB 2 photos copyright: S FinerArt UK story: 'Stephen Finer: Painting David Bowie', 2017


 
 
stephenfiner_com_files/~sfiner_files/Hartley&Hume%2520ShawcrossNPG0006.jpg Hartley and Hume Shawcross  (private collection)



 

RADIO & TELEVISION

ITN with Alma Cogan, 13 December 1959

link: Stephen Finer & Alma Cogan  copyright Independent Television News

Norbert Lynton interview on the nude in art by Channel One (cable) 1995

‘Paint it Red’ Norbert Lynton interviewed by Channel One (cable) 1995

BBC1 News, James Wilkinson 'Scientists show an eye for art', Wed 29 April 1998 9.05pm

British Satellite News recorded Tuesday 20 Nov 2001

ZDF German Television - interviewed by Katrina Balmforth recorded Tuesday 20 Nov 2001

Fuji Television, Japan August 2003

Radio Jackie, 2004

'Artists Make Faces', sw1tv 2014                             

FILM & VIDEO

1980 Pilgrim Farewell, directed by Michael Roemer USA

2021 link:  Vogue video 'Iman's Catskill's Home is Full of Beautiful Artistic Odes to David Bowie'  Vogue

TALKS + LECTURES

'Perspectives On...Portraits', 7 January 2016, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex, 2016

Portrait of the Day: David Bowie, National Portrait Gallery, 21 & 28 Feb 2019

 

stephenfiner_com_files/~sfiner_files/MD%2520on%2520stage%2520AS%2520sf-9024.jpg   Marlene Dietrich on stage    

                                                                               
 

REFERENCE
 
Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon
 
link: 'A Portrait of Bowie' ed. Brian Hiatt
 
Blouin ArtInfo -Biography of Stephen Finer
 
Catalog of American Portraits

Complete Illustrated Catalogue, National Portrait Gallery London 2004

The Complete David Bowie by Nicholas Pegg, Titan Books 2016

Dictionary of British Artists Since 1945 ed. David Buckman

Dictionary of International Biography

Handbook of British Painting & Printmaking 1900-1990 Scolar Press, Ashgate 1998

Insight Guides Museums and Galleries of London, APA Publication 2002

National Portrait Gallery Guide by John Cooper 2006

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership, Public Catalogue Foundation
 
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: David Bowie 2020
 
Who’s Who in Art



 Seated nude Arts Council Collection  Seated nude Arts Council Collection
    
                          

MIXED EXHIBITIONS
 
2021
              Augmented Reality Art Gallery, Art of London
2019
             'Icons Trail', National Portrait Gallery
 
           ‘Figure Study ll', Towner Gallery, Eastbourne 26 Jan - 6 May   

2018
            'RCA Secret', Royal College of Art, London
                                                               
2017   
              Portrait Gala Mystery Portrait Postcards, National Portrait Gallery London                                              
2016
              Bowie Collector, 1-10 November 2016
              'Perspectives On...Portraits', 2p.m.Sunday 17 Jan 2016, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex
2014-16              
              'In the Frame: Plymouth's Portraits Revealed', Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
2014

              Portrait Gala Mystery Portrait Postcards, National Portrait Gallery London  

                                           Iman and David Bowie  Iman & David Bowiecopyright Stephen Finer                                               
2013   

            'Artists Make Faces',  Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
            'People and Portraits', Towner
2011      
            'RCA Secret', Royal College of Art, London
            'Flashback', Art Space Gallery, London
            'The Art of Giving', Towner   
2010    
            'Tidelines: Retracing a Story', Towner    
2008     
            'Winter Journey', Art Space Gallery, London   
2007    
            Looking Forward', Agnew's, London    
2006-08
            Fusion Gallery, Spain    
2006    
            View Gallery, Surrey

            ‘An American Abroad Sandra Fisher and her School of London Friends’, 
            incl. ‘Sandra Fisher’ by Stephen Finer from the Arts Council Collection), 
            New York Studio School, New York, USA    
2005-06    
            Defined Art, Surrey
            View Gallery, Surrey
            Fusion Gallery, Spain
            View Gallery, Surrey     
2005    
            ‘Figure, Place, and Time-Works on Paper’, Art Space Gallery, London
            RCA Secret, London    
2003    
            Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
            'The National Portrait Gallery Collects', ('David Bowie') Bodelwyddan Castle, Wales     
2001     
            'Art 2001' London Contemporary Art Fair
            'RCA Secret', Royal College of Art, London     
2000-01    
            'Painting The Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000', National Portrait Gallery, London 
            ('David Bowie' and 'Iman' by Stephen Finer)    
1999-00    
            'Pure Paint', Stephen Lacey Gallery, London    
1999      
               'About the Figure', Six Chapel Row, Bath         Alexandra Bastedo copyright:Bath Chronicle Alexandra Bastedo copright: Bath Chronicle
             'British Art 1900-1998', Agnew's, London
            'Art 99' London Contemporary Art Fair
            Agnew's, London
            'Absolut Secret', Royal College of Art, London

1998    
            '50 Contemporary Self Portraits' Six Chapel Row, Bath
            Oriel Theatr, Bodelwyddan Castle, School of Art Museum & Art Gallery, Aberyswyth
            Contemporary Art Fair, London
            Glasgow Art Fair
            '50 Contemporary Self-Portraits', Six Chapel Row, Bath
            Sep 20th Century British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London    
1997-98
            'Art Chicago', USA   
            'Men on Women' Oriel Theatr, Bodelwyddan Castle &
            Schools of Art Museum & Art Gallery, Aberyswyth (selected by Peter Edwards),    
1996-97    
            Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London    
1996    
            'The Discerning Eye' Mall Galleries, London ( invited by Martin Gayford)    
1995    
            Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
            Chicago Art Fair
            Basel Art Fair
            Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London    
1994    
            Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London    
1993/9   
            'The Portrait Now' ('Marlene Dietrich' by Stephen Finer), National Portrait Gallery, London     
1992    
            'The Figure Laid Bare', Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
            'Cabinet Painting', Hove Museum & Art Gallery & 
            Glynn Vivian Art Gallery & Museum, Swansea 
            Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London    
1991    
            Berkeley Square Gallery, London
            Contemporary Art Fair London
            Basel Art Fair
            Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
            'Cabinet Painting', Gillian Jason Gallery, London
1990    
            'Academician's Choice' - (invited by Kitaj) The Mall Galleries, London & 
            The Eye Gallery, Bristol    
1989    
            Contemporary Art Fair, London
            Westcott Gallery
            Berkeley Square Gallery. London    
1988-89    
            Berkeley Square Gallery    
1988    
            AR.CO Madrid    
1986    
            Contemporary Art Fair, London 
            'New Art 2', Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London    
1985    
            'New Art', Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London    
1984    
            COLLAZIONE INGLESE II, Venice Biennale, Italy    
1983   
            'Artists Make Faces', Art House, London    
1981-82   
            'Small Work', Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London    
1980    
            BRITISH ART 1940-80 from the Arts Council Collection, 
            ('Sandra Fisher' by Stephen Finer) Hayward Gallery, London    
1977    
            Monika Kinley: 'Open House', London

  


                                               stephenfiner_com_files/~sfiner_files/Woman%2520on%2520a%2520stool.jpg   Woman on a stool
                                        

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 
1984            
           
 'Venice through the Looking-glass', William Packer, The Financial Times, Tuesday June 19, 1984
            Misc articles: Artline, Studio International
1985            
            reviews of mixed exhibition

            'Exhibition reviews', Art & Artists, October no:229 illustration
            'Untitled', 1985 by Stephen Finer
1986            
            Marjorie-Allthorpe-Guyton 'New Art l & ll at Anthony Reynolds' Artscribe, Dec-Jan 

            no.55 R. Costa 'London' Juliet Dec-Jan no:23
1986            
            'Portraits that capture the prizes', William Packer, Financial Times, Thursday June 5

            Margaret Garlake 'Artists of the Day', Art Monthly, June
            Graham Hughes 'Letter from Holland', Arts Review, June
            Margaret Garlake, Art Monthly, July-August
            Contemporary Art Society Annual Report

1988            
            Margaret Garlake, catalogue introduction to exhibition at Anthony Reynolds Gallery

1989            
            William Packer, catalogue introduction to exhibition at Berkeley Square Gallery

            The Guardian 10 July, The Independent
            Art & Design,  '40 under 40: the new generation in Britain', by A Papadakes, Academy Editions, New York; St Martin's Press
1990
            London Magazine: volume 30, issues 7-12  

1991            
            Antennae', Galleries Magazine Oct 1991

1992            
            Margaret Garlake, introduction to exhibition at Bernard Jacobson Gallery

            'Gallery Openings', The Independent 8 Sept 1992 Iain Gale
            Londoner's Diary, Evening Standard 11 Sept 1992
            'Gallery', Modern Painters Autumn 1992 illustration: 'Man of twenty three and man of twenty two', 1990
            'Faced with a view', William Packer, Financial Times, Tuesday 15 Sept 1992
            'What's On' magazine, Simon Corbin, 7-14 October 1992
1992/93       
            Robin Gibson 'Spotlight': Stephen Finer', Modern Painters vol 4, No 4 Winter Issue
1993
            Contemporary Art, Volume 2, Green Book Limited

1993/94       
            'Face Lift for Portrait Gallery', William Packer, The Financial Times , Friday November 19, 1993

          Ian McKay 'The Portrait..When?', Contemporary Art, Winter Issue
            Simon Tait, The Observer 6 Feb 1994  
1994           
            'Greenwich Time', 'Finer Art', 1 July 1994

            Ian McKay 'What's on in London', July 6-July 13
            Greenwich Guide
            Finer Art', This is London, 1 July 1994
            'Article of Faith' by Colin Wiggins, Art Review, Summer Issue 1994
            link: A woman 1992John Windsor,The Sunday Review,The Independent on Sunday,
18 Sept 1994
                illus: A woman, 1992
1995           
            catalogue introduction by Norbert Lynton, exhibition, Bernard Jacobson Gallery

            'Gallery Round-up', The Daily Telegraph, Wednesday April 16
            'Hot Tickets: Galleries', Nicholas Drake, ES Magazine, 28 April
            'What's On' magazine May 3-May 10 illustration
            'Worthwhile hanging around the galleries', Jewish Chronicle, 5 May
            'Hot Air', July-Sept 1995 (illustration: 'David Bowie' 1994)
            'Features: Beauty and the beastly portrait', Elizabeth Grice, Daily 
            Telegraph,Thursday Sept 28 1995
            'Pop Art', Celia Lyttelton, Tatler October 1995
1996           
            Diary, ‘The people of the Booker’, Jeremy Lester, Jewish Chronicle, 7 November 

1997           
            'Men on Women' exhibition catalogue (illus.)

            'Crankin' Out', June 1997  illustration: 'David Bowie'
1998           
            'Photo Finish', Times Diary, Jasper Gerard, The Times, Saturday 31 Jan 1998

            'British Art 1900-1998' catalogue illus: 'Marlene Dietrich on Stage', Agnew's
1999           
            'Harpers & Queen', January

            'National Coup for city art gallery', Bath Chronicle, 12 Jan 1999
            'The Body Beautiful', Bath Chronicle, 18 Jan 1999
            'Face to face with an actress who now champions animals', Bath Observer, 21 Jan 1999
            Menningarlíf, Freysteinn Jóhannsson, Thursday 18th march 1999, Iceland
            Kunst und Politik der Farbe: Gainsboroughs Portraitmalerei by Bettina Gockel, Gebr. Mann         

2000           
            ‘Burning Gold’ by Howard Thomas

            'Images of a Lifetime', Modern Painters, Winter 1999
            Stephen Finer: Presence and Identity' by Martin Golding, Modern Painters, Spring 2000
            'Heath's Private View', Private Eye, June 2000
            'Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000', by Robin Gibson introduction by Norbert Lynton 
            (illus:'David Bowie and Iman' by Stephen Finer), National Portrait Gallery, London
             'Art Decade...well  Month Actually', David Bowie official blog,17 Oct 2000

            'The Fame of the Pose' by Hugh Pearman, Sunday Times Magazine (illustration: 'David Bowie and Iman' cover & article), 
            22 October 2000

2001                       
           link:'Last Chance To See David and Iman', David Bowie official blog, 24 Jan 2001

          link: 'New Stephen Finer exhibition', 14 June 2001 
            
link:   ‘Iman and David Bowie’ see July 1 on David Bowie Wonderworld 
              Chichester Observer, July 12 2001 illus: 'Patrick Garland and Alexandra Bastedo', front page & page 5 
              Alexandra Bastedo & Patrick Garland, Johnson Press photo & article:Johnson Press

            'Another Finer Mr and Mrs Jones' bowiewonderworld, July 2001   illus: Iman & David Bowie 'Iman and David Bowie'
            'Passport to Pleasure...', West Sussex Gazette, 9 August 2002
            'Nothing could be Finer...', by Andrew White illus: 'Iman' , 2000 by Stephen Finer, Southern Daily Echo, Friday 17 August 2001 
            'When is a portrait not a portrait?' by Charles Saumarez Smith, The Daily Telegraph, 19 Sept 2001
              
Reuters article by Emma Ross-Thompson, Nov 2001
             'A Life' by Gabriel Josipovici, London Magazine Editions

                        
2002          
            Good Looking, Feb-April 2002

             'Bowie and Dietrich come to Charleston (illus:'David Bowie' and 'Patrick Garland' by Stephen Finer), Spectrum 2002
            'Finer comes to Charleston' (illus: 'Patrick Garland and Alexandra Bastedo' by Stephen Finer), 
            Eastbourne Herald, Friday 8 March 2002

            'Sitting Stars' by Unity Wroe (Illus: 'Patrick Garland and Alexandra Bastedo'), The Argus, Friday 15 March 2002
            'Intimacy and Mortality Finer's People' by Robin Gibson illustrated essay published by The Charleston Trust
            The Insight (illus:'David Bowie', 2000 by Stephen Finer) Issue 52, April 2002
            'Charleston Diary', Canvas, May 2002 Issue 3 
            'Date', (illustrated: David Bowie' 1994 by Stephen Finer), Denmark
2004           
            The Elmbridge Lifestyle Magazine', March 2004 (cover: 'Naked woman')

            Esher News and Mail, 17 March 2004 (illus.)
            Cobham News and Mail, 17 March 2004 (illus).
            ‘Stephen Finer Paintings’ intoduction by Robin Gibson (illus)
2006
         
           
  ‘Stephen Finer’ (illustrated), Surrey Monocle, March 2006
              Kingston Time & Leisure, Issue 18 April 2006
              Elmbridge Magazine, April 2006
            ‘Pictures with Character’ by Nancy Groves (illustrated: ‘Yehudi Menuhin’), Surrey Comet, Wednesday March 1, 2006
            ‘Finer’s face of art’, by Nancy Groves (‘illustrated ‘Yehudi Menuhin’). Esher & Cobham Guardian, Thursday  March  2, 2006
            Female Focus,  July, Spain
            Xpat magazine, August, Spain
            ‘Every Great Country Must Have its Portrait Gallery’, Jamie Portman, CanWest News Service, Thursday, October 12 2006, 
            National Post, Canada

            ‘Why no great country should be without a portrait gallery', Jamie Portman, Thursday, October 12, 2006, 
            The Ottawa Citizen, Canada

2007           
            ‘Looking Forward 30 Contemporary artists’, Agnew’s London

            ‘Literature, Reading with Purpose’, illus: ‘Patrick Garland and Alexandra Bastedo’, Glencoe Publishing, McGraw Hill, USA
            RTN: ‘EXCLUSIVE ART AT RTN LOUNGE’, by Jack Troughton, 24 May 2007
            Arts Magazine, November, France
2008           
            Visual arts Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, December 6 2008

2009           
            Teacher Handbook, National Foundation for Educational Research

2010     
            'Stephen Finer Paintings & Watercolours', Art Space Gallery  
            ‘A Walk in the Park & Tide Lines: Retracing a Story’, Towner, May 2010

            Art Quarterly, (illustrated: ‘Naked woman standing with arms crossed’) Summer 2010
2011           
            
link: 'FLASHBACK', Art Space Gallery 
           The Alleynian, Summer 2011, No.698
           'Kitaj: ', Abbot Hall Art Gallery

              Music 1 'From the Present to the Past' by Carla Rees, Open College of the Arts
2012
            Maxs Kansas City - Art To The Max:Stephen Finer, 23 January 2012
          'People...who read People...are the luckiest people at the National Portrait Gallery', The Purple Passport
          'Duncan Hume Dancing and other People' catalogue, Art Space Gallery
          link: Interview Magazine, New York, Sept 2012 
2013   
          Portrait of the Day:David Bowie, talk by Emily Worth & leaflet (illustrated),National Portrait Gallery, 21 April 2013 
          National Portrait Gallery, Philip Storm, visitmuseums.com, 2013
          Pallant House Gallery Magazine, July-October 2013, No 30
          'Becoming a Londoner' by David Plante, Bloomsbury Publishing
2014
          'Lives of the Engineers:Visualizations of the Industrial Revolution in the Work of R.B. Kitaj' by Francis Marshall, Visual Culture in Britain

            link: Iconica, Portrait Gallery: os rostos e os nomes day historió, Ronaldo Entler, 6 August 2014 
2015   
          link: 'In the Frame: Plymouth's Portraits revealed' illus: 'Head of a woman by Stephen Finer

          : catalogue link: 'Merlyn Driver recording and other paintings'
            Merlyn Driver recording, oil on canvas,50.8x40.5cm
          Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting by Catherine Lampert, Thames & Hudson
2016  
          
William Boyd (illus: David Bowie by Stephen Finer), The Guardian 12 January 2016

          link: Quick Study: David Bowie and art, Two Coats of Paint, Sharon Butler 17 January 2016
          Merlyn Driver's Kickstarter EP-prints of Merlyn Driver paintings by Stephen Finer
          link: Artwork in focus:Patrick Garland  Art.UK 

          link: Art UK Newsletter #5, 19 April 2016
         link: 'A Portrait of Bowie' ed. Brian Hiatt, Octopus Books
          link: Art UK Newsletter #20, 15 April 2016  
         link;review by Tristan Quinn of  'A Portrait of Bowie', Times Literary Supplement, 2 December 2016
2017  
         link: Art UK story: 'Stephen Finer: Painting David Bowie'
          link: Art UK Newsletter #24

          Medium, 30 June 2017
          5 Books to Read Now, Rob Levy, Alive Mag 12 July 2017 
          link: Bridgeman Contemporary Artist Stephen Finer’s Portraits of David Bowie 2 Nov 2017
2018
          link: Art UK on Twitter 10 Jan 2018 
          link: 'Forget YBAs,buy OBAs:...' Colin Gleadell, The Telegraph,11 September 2018  
2019  
          link:  Icons Trail, PDF publication National Portrait Gallery  
          link:'David Bowie art in London: Best paintings, portraits, murals and street art of the star on his birthday’, Lizzie Thomson, Evening Standard Tuesday, 8 Jan 2019  
          link: A look at BBC Two's 'Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century' through art by Lydia Figes, 4 Feb 2019
          'Dulwich 400', Ed. Jan Piggott & Nick Black
          'Orlando, David Bowie and the Pronoun Revolution' by Chanya Button, Charleston Trust, July 2019
          'The contemporary relevance of split portraiture' Hoi Yee Chau, PhD in Fine Art, Reading School of Art, Aug 2019 
2020  
          Portrait of the Day-David Bowie by Stephen Finer, National Portrait Gallery 26 July 2020
2021   
          OA Magazine 
          Art of London Augmented Reality Art 
          link' Augmented Gallery' announces three additional artworks, Gabbie Fernie, Mobile Marketing 9 July 
          'The soundtrack of art', Art UK newsletter, July 2021   
          '100 Days', Gabriel Josipovici, Carcanet Press   
          link: Vogue video 'Iman's Catskill's Home is Full of Beautiful Artistic Odes to David Bowie'  Vogue    
2022   
          link: 'Encounters with artists' by David Saywell, ART UK   
          OA Magazine 
          Art UK: Art and popular culture 
          link: Art of London  
          Art UK: Art and Music 
          Frank Auerbach The Sitters, Piano Nobile Publications  
          Frank Auerbach’s portraits: Matthew Travers and William Feaver | Creative Conversations 
           Frank Auerbach The Sitters, Alexander Adam '
Conversations' 
2023 
           Art UK Newsletter: 'Sound and vision. When art and music collide' 
         'Grayson Perry joins 60+ artists in charity auction for victims of Torture' by Mark Westall, FAD Magazine 23 October 2023 
          
            link:LOOKING FOR BOWIE by Matteo Tonolli'Looking for Bowie. L'uomo e le sue mashere' by Matteo Tonolli, Arcana Edizione

           link:'David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine' by Nicholas Royle, Manchester University Press

          Mannschaft Magazin, 12, 13 Dec 2023 
2024  
            OA Magazine 2024

2024-25 Catalogue link: 'Paintings of Seán Hewitt and other People', Art Space Gallery

        


            

          
                                                                               
                                                           Seated naked woman with arm raised (watercolour) Seated naked woman with arm raised watercolour 

                                                              
                                                             Face (watercolour) Face watercolour


 

                                                 

 

 

 

link: Youtube: David Bowie and Iman

 

 

 

 

link: Youtube: Marlene Dietrich


  

 

 

 


Fine Art Print of Marlene Dietrich by Stephen FinerMarlene Dietrich Iman, 1995 by Stephen FinerIman, 1995
David Bowie and Iman, 1995 by Stephen Finer David Bowie and Iman, 1995
 

Patrick Garland and Alexandra Bastedo, 1998 by Stephen Finer

Patrick Garland and Alexandra Bastedo, 1998


Fine Art Print of Iman, left hand panel of Diptych, 2000 by Stephen Finer Fine Art Print of David Bowie, right hand panel of Diptych, 2000 by Stephen FinerIman and David Bowie
 
Fine Art Print of Head of a woman, 1999 by Stephen FinerHead of a woman, 1999

Fine Art Print of Marlene Dietrich, 2000 by Stephen FinerMarlene Dietrich
 
Fine Art Print of Kitaj, 1994 by Stephen FinerKitaj, 1994 Fine Art Print of Kitaj with his hand on his head, 1995 by Stephen Finer
Kitaj with his hand on his head, 1995, collection: Los Angeles Museum of Art


 

Woman showering her hair in the bathWoman showering her hair in the bath
Two women and a man, 1986 by Stephen FinerTwo women and a man, 1986
link:Bridgeman Art LibraryBridgeman Art                    

 

 

 

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