Steve Harris was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1953 and is self-taught as an artist. He moved with his wife Karen and two daughters to Australia in 1991 and now resides in Jervis Bay, New South Wales.
"Harris has become well known for his impeccably painted still life compositions, his skilful use of light, shadow and space being a hallmark of his approach. He generally tends to depict objects which have an everyday function or perhaps have even been discarded, but the work is about much more than simple representation. Harris is a master of understated realism which in turn evokes its own sense of 'atmosphere' and contemplative mood. His works have been described as 'meditations in light'; and this is very much the feeling one has when attending one of Harris's exhibitions - a type of reflective silence emanates from the paintings and imbues them with a spiritual quality that one would not, perhaps anticipate." ~ Nevill Drury Images 2, Australian Contemporary Painting.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Gallery One, Gold Coast, Australia
2014 Paintbox Fine Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2012 Paintbox Fine Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2007 Ferner Gallery, Auckland NZ
2006 Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Retrospective, Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
2004 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
Ferner Gallery, Wellington NZ
2003 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
2002 Ferner Gallery, Auckland NZ
Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
2001 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
2000 Ferner Gallery, Auckland NZ
Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1999 Ferner Gallery, Wellington NZ
Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne Australia
1998 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
1997 Cintra Galleries, Brisbane Australia
1996 Ferner Gallery, Wellington NZ
Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
1995 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
Cintra Galleries, Brisbane Australia
1994 Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Ferner Gallery, Auckland NZ
Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1993 Ferner Gallery, Auckland NZ
Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
1992 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1991 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
Ferner Gallery, Auckland NZ
1990 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1989 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
1988 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
1987 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney Australia
1986 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1985 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1984 Rosslyn Gallery, Dunedin NZ
1984 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
Rosslyn Gallery, Dunedin NZ
1983 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch NZ
1982 Cargo Gallery, Lyttleton NZ
1981 Cargo Gallery, Lyttleton NZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Affordable Art Fair Singapore
Group exhibition Manyung Gallery, Sorrento, Australia
2017 Group exhibition Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza, Australia
2014 Gallery One, Gold Coast, Australia
2011 Still Life exhibition Gallery One, Gold Coast, Australia
2007 Dickerson Gallery, land, sea & sky, Melbourne Australia
Farm Feral and female, Bell Gallery, Berrima, NSW Australia
2006 Lexus Mortimore, Dubbo Australia
1996 NZ Realists, Robert McDougal Public Art Gallery, Christchurch NZ
Guest Artist, Inverlochy Exhibition, Wellington NZ
Dual Horizons, Studio of Contemporary Art, Auckland NZ
Still Life, Group Exhibition, Ferner Gallery, Auckland NZ
Super Art Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne Australia
1993 A.C.T.A. Maritime Award, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney Australia
P&O Maritime Award, Sydney Australia
12 Contemporary NZ Artists, Hong Kong Royal Country Club, Hong Kong
1988 Inaugural Australian Commercial Galleries Association
Art Fair, Melbourne Australia
1985 Guest Artist, Timaru Annual Exhibition, Timaru NZ
Rosslyn Gallery, Dunedin NZ
1984 Montana Art Award, Auckland NZ
1983 Guest Artist, Ashburton Annual Exhibition, Ashburton NZ
1980 Otago Art Society, Dunedin NZ
1979 Commonwealth Young Artists' Exhibition, Royal Overseas League
Christchurch NZ and London UK
Otago Art Society, Dunedin NZ
1978 Abernethy's Gallery, Dunedin NZ
1977 Benson & Hedges Award, Dunedin NZ
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE
Deutche Bank, Sydney, Australia
McDougal Public Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
BHP Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Mclntosh Corporate Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Baring Securities (Australia) Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Abbott Tout Russell Kennedy, Sydney, Australia
NZ Post, Wellington, New Zealand
Sly and Weigall, Sydney, Australia
Huka Lodge, Taupo, New Zealand
D & D Tolhurst, Melbourne, Australia
Skellerup Corporation, Auckland, New Zealand
Air New Zealand, Sydney and Brisbane Australia
Marubeni Australia Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Sky Television, New Zealand
Merrill Lynch, Sydney, Australia
J.B. Were, Sydney, Australia
Deacons Graham & Jones, Sydney, Australia
Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW Australia
Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Lowenstein, Sydney, Australia
Private Collections including: United States of America, United Kingdom, Germany, Bahamas, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Brunei, China