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Stephen Mumberson
Stephen Mumberson "It was an education that through just words and sound created imaginary pictures, cross-connected impressions in the mind."

I am of an age that I remember the Home Service, from an early childhood I've had a wide range of topics, ideas and drama - through old boxed wireless transistors and Walkmen. From primary school, secondary modern, college and university, the radio, for me Radio 4 was always there.

It was where debates, politics, the arts, theatre, new ideas and unknown worlds came alive in my mind's eye. It was an education that through just words and sound created imaginary pictures, cross-connected impressions in the mind.

From my earliest visual experiments though my student years and now while working in various studios or just thinking over a sketch book, I find the need to hear the dialogue of the radio to keep the whole person going.

It's a complex relationship - does listening to these programmes impact on my creativity? Or is the mental landscape created where somehow ideas are both forced and freed? Is it part of, or the course of that mixture that gives the impulse to create?
Stephen Mumberson was born in 1955 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire and now lives in Stockwell, London. He attended Brighton Polytechnic where he earned a BA (Hons) Fine Arts, and then continued on to earn a Specialist Printmaking Distinction. He then attended the Royal College of Art where he earned an MA in Printmaking.

Since the completion of his own education, he has been very involved with others' education. He has been a visiting lecturer in Printmaking at West Surrey College of Art and Design, an Associate Lecturer in Print and Paint at Middlesex Polytechnic, and a Sessional Lecturer in Drawing and Print at the London College of Furniture, Bournemouth College of Art and at Brighton Polytechnic.

He has had five solo shows at the Young Vic Theatre, City Arts Associate, Creaser Gallery, Art Now and the Museum of Mankind, all in London.

In 1985, he had a kite design commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum. He also was awarded a Printmaking Fellowship at the Royal College of Art in 1989.

Stephen became an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1991 and a full Member in 1995.
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