The Samstag Alumni
The 1999 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Peter Alwast | Stephen Bram | Kristian Burford | Nicholas Folland | Paul Hoban | Hanh Ngo | Deborah Paauwe | Matthew Warren
At the beginning of the decade, Stephen Bram gained national recognition for his participation in reintroducing early European modernist theories of composition into the international chatter about the re-resuscitation of abstract painting. Now aligned with a savvy Amsterdam community of "abstract/conceptual" artists who think past canvas as surface and beyond lines as demarcations of space, Bram excavates architectural environs by applying paint directly to walls. He lets pigment and perspective open up composition, pushing for deliberate architectural and painterly illusion, intending walls and rooms to fly off into one another.
The famous Dutch artist Mondrian is said to have meditated for hours on his grids to arrive at his metaphysical program of Neo-Plasticism; Bram brings us up to date on the architectural guidelines of altered states.
M.A. Greenstein
from her Samstag catalogue essay;
Back to the Future - From Wry to Rave
| Stephen Bram Born 1961, Melbourne, Victoria |
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| 1999 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship Graduate Program, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany |
| 1996 | Master of Arts (Research), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1985 | Bachelor of Art, Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
Untitled 1998
acrylic on wall
320 x 1000 cm
© the artist
Untitled 1998
acrylic on wall
300 x 450 cm
© the artist