Stephen Sutcliffe (b.1968, Harrogate) is an artist who lives and works in Yorkshire. Recent solo exhibitions include, You Can Come in But You Won’t Like it, Rob Tufnell 2023, High Windows, Dead Birds, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2019). Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs, Talbot Rice Edinburgh, Twixt Cup and Lip, Hepworth Wakefield (2017), Going Over, Rob Tufnell, London (2015), Outwork and Workings Out, Tramway, Glasgow (2013). In 2018 he participated in the Manchester International Festival in colaboration with Graham Eatough on a film for the Whitworth Gallery No End to Enderby, for which they won the Contemporary Arts Society Award. He has been shortlisted for the Jarman Award twice and in 2012 he won the Margaret Tait Award. In 2019 he had two books published published, ‘at Fifty’ (Sternberg Press) a monograph and ‘Much Obliged, (Book Works) a kind of autobiography. He has recently curated an exhibition of items from the Herbert Read Archive at the Brotherton Library in Leeds University with the arts group Pavillion, which was accompanied by a new video, ‘City of Dreadful Something’.
UPCOMING PROJECTS
Date tbc Lindsay Anderson Centenary, BFI, Southbank, London
PROJECTS (since 2010)
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
October 2023 ‘You Can Come in But You Won’t Like It’, Rob Tufnell, London
June 2019 ‘High Windows, Dead Birds’, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart
October 2018 ‘Twixt Cup and Lip’, Heong Gallery, Cambridge Film Festival
April 2018 ‘No End To Enderby’, Glasgow International
July 2017 ‘Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs’, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
June 2017 ‘No End To Enderby’, Whitworth Gallery Manchester
June 2016 ‘Twixt Cup and Lip’, Calder Space, Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
March 2015 ‘Going Over’, Rob Tufnell, London
June 2013. ‘Outwork and Workings Out’, Solo Exhibition, Tramway, Glasgow
February 2012 ‘The Herbivores’, Rob Tufnell, London
August 2011 ‘Runaway, Success’, Stills, Edinburgh
October 2010 Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London
GROUP
July 2021 ‘The Holding Environment’, Chapter II, Bonner Kunstverien, Germany
February 2017 ‘Screen Memory’, Simon Lee Gallery, London
September 2015 Christopher Logue: Poster Poems, Rob Tufnell, London
October 2015 ‘Survival Is Not Enough’, Rodeo Gallery, London
July 2015 ‘Paul’s Case’, Out of Focus (online platform)
May 2015 ‘Film Montage’, Coreana Museum of Art, South Korea
March 2015 ‘Container and Contained’, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
March 2015 Group Show, Micky Schubert, Berlin
November 2014 ‘Down Where Changed’, Cubitt, London
October 2014 ‘The Reluctant Narrator’, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
March 2014 “For as Long as You Like”, Group Show, Gaudel De Stampa, Paris
June 2014 ‘Generation’, Tramway, Glasgow
November 2013 ‘Assembly’, Tate Britain, London
July 2013 ‘If Not Always Permanently’, Spike Island, Bristol
January 2013 Rotterdam Film Festival
December 2012 ‘Desire Lines’, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
May 2012 Lux Biennale, ICA, London
September 2011 ‘Outrageous Fortune’, Hayward Gallery London /Focal Point Southend
July 2010 Joint show with Humphrey Spender, Rob Tufnell, London
March 2010 ‘Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree’, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
February 2010 ‘Project 35’, Hans Ulrich Obrist / Independent Curators International (touring)
CURATION
September 2019 ‘Art in an Electric Atmosphere’, with Pavillion, Leeds University
ONLINE
October 2020 ‘It was a lover and his lass’, online, http://www.robtufnell.com/
October 2020 Stanley Picker Public Lectures, online, https://pickerpubliclectures.com/
FESTIVALS/SCREENINGS
May 2015 ‘Short Form’ at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal
May 2015 Videoex-Zurich
March 2015 Moving Picture: Artists’ Films from the Film London Jarman Award
March 2014 Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
January 2014 Northern Film and Media, Baltic, Newcastle
October 2013 Experimenta, London Film Festival
February 2013 Margaret Tait Award Premiere, Glasgow Film Theatre
June 2012 Belfast Film Festival
January 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival
December 2011 ‘Alma Mater’, Lux, (Touring)
May 2010 International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
TALKS/PRESENTATIONS
February 2017 ‘Screen Memory’, Royal Academy, London
November 2016 The Model, Sligo, Republic of Ireland
May 2015 ‘Talkback’, LUX Associates, Dundee Contemporary Arts
April 2015 Goldsmiths College of Art, London
June 2013 Guest Speaker, LUX Associates, London
February 2013 University of Warwick
October 2012 ‘Bringing the Dead to Life’, Bookworks at Edinburgh Printmakers
June 2012 Happy Hypocrite, “Interview”, Showroom, London
May 2012 ‘Television Delivers People’, ICA, London
November 2011 Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
October 2011 ‘Log-rolling’, Stills, Edinburgh
October 2011 Eastside Projects, Birmingham
June 2011 Guest Speaker, LUX Associates, London
June 2011 Whitechapel Gallery, London
April 2011 ‘Thinking Through Cinema’, LUX/Tramway, Glasgow
November 2010 Art Basel Miami Beach, Creative Time/Tramway, Oceanfront Nights
RECENT AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
November 2015 Winner of Contemporary Art Society Award with Graham Eato and Whitworth Gallery Manchester
February – June 2014 BBC Artists and Archives Residency, BBC Scotland
September 2014 Jarman Award Nominee
March 2014 BBC Scotland, Artists Residency
September 2013 Creative Scotland Artist Bursary
December 2012 ‘Random Acts’, Channel 4
May 2012 Margaret Tait Award Winner
January 2011 Elephant Trust Grant
October 2010 ‘Three Minute Wonders’, Channel 4
February 2010 195 Collaborations, Serpentine Gallery, London
June 2012 Frieze Film Commission
September 2009 Jarman Award Nominee
July 2009 Contemporary Art Society Award Nominee
December 2008 Scottish Arts Council Film and Video Grant
RECENT PUBLICATIONS / PRESS
October 2020 No End To Enderby, Lux, London
March 2019 ‘Much Obliged’, publication with Book Works, London
May 2019 ‘Sutcliffe at 50’ publication with Sterberg/Talbot Rice
August 2017 Guardian, Tuesday 1
September 2016 Art Monthly No 399
September 2013 Frieze, Issue 157
October 2011 Art Monthly, Issue 350
June 2010 ‘The Happy Hypocrite’, Issue 5
April 2010 Frieze, Issue 130
March 2010 Art Review, Issue 39
February-March 2010 Mousse, Issue 22
January-February 2010 Frieze, Issue 128
November-December 2009 Kaleidoscope Issue 4
Autumn 2009 Map, Issue 19
September 2008 ‘Nought to Sixty’, Institute of Contemporary Arts
December-January 2008/2009 Art Monthly, Issue 322
Represented by Rob Tufnell, London
LUX, London