Published 06/01/2017
Bridgeman Images is now representing Stephen Farthing RA for copyright, reproduction and licensing
His works are a reflection of his education, personal experience and perspective on historical events. By painting history through the lens of postmodernism, he’s taken on subject matters as diverse as the Battle of Trafalgar, swagger portraiture, and the topographical mapping of cities. As well as painting, Farthing’s interests lie in drawing, more specifically the taxonomy of drawing, and the drawings made after first contact by preliterate societies.
In his early career, he taught at the Canterbury College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He later went on to become Head of Painting and Head of Department of Fine Art at West Surrey College of Art and Design. From 1990 he was Ruskin Master at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford until 2000.
Farthing has exhibited extensively in solo shows throughout the UK, Latin America and Japan. He has also participated in many group exhibitions since 1975, including the John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions in which he was a Prize Winner eight times.
In 1989, Farthing was Artist in Residence at the Hayward Gallery in London. He was elected Royal Academician in 1998 and in 2000 was made an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After his first book The Intelligent Persons Guide to Modern Art was published in 2000, Farthing has gone on to edit and write a number of art historical texts, specifically in relation to painting and drawing.
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Bridgeman Artists' Copyright Service
Stephen Farthing RA joins a distinguished list of artists and artists’ estates to have appointed the Bridgeman Artists’ Copyright Service including Lucian Freud and Stanley Spencer.
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