Biography
Norman Stevens ARA (b. Bradford, Yorkshire, UK 1937 - d. 1988) attended Bradford Art College alongside David Hockney, John Loker and David Oxtoby and then, went to the Royal College of Art, London in 1957 where he was awarded the Lloyd Landscape and Abbey Minor Travelling scholarships. In 1974, Stevens was a Gregory Fellow in Painting at the University of Leeds. He won the John Moores Painting Prize, and his work was included in British Painting 1952-1977 at the Royal Academy, and the first British Art Show, in 1979 but he became better known as a printmaker which he had turned to in 1970 and exhibited at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (1975), and The Redfern Gallery (1980). In 1979 Stevens became the first exhibitor to win multiple prizes at the British International Print Biennale, where he also won a prize in 1982.
