About

Stephenson’s practice centres around working on original works of art by other artists. Most often this involves superimposing photographic images directly onto antique oil paintings. By layering new imagery and photographs taken around the very institutions these paintings would have been originally displayed in a hundred years or so prior, Stephenson is continuously working to build upon stories and perspectives in his work, as though he is simultaneously “DJ-ing” with each of the paintings themselves.
The identity of the first artist of the oil paintings is always known and this allows a …