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
Select Exhibitions
2025 Winter Wine Weekend Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza
2024 Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
2023 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2023 The Collectors Canvas, Manyung Gallery, Malvern
2023 Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne
2023 Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
2022 Living in Nature, Manyung Gallery, Strathmore
2022 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2022 Affordable Art Fair, Sydney
2020 Summer @ Sorrento, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2019 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2018 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
2018 Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Sorrento, Australia
2018 Manyung Gallery, Sorrento
2018 Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza
2017 Group Exhibition, Manyung Gallery, Mount Eliza, Australia
2015 Gallery One, Gold Coast, Australia
2014 Paintbox Fine Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2014 Gallery One, Gold Coast, Australia
2012 Paintbox Fine Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2011 Still Life, Gallery One, Gold Coast, Australia
2007 Ferner Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2007 Land, Sea & Sky, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Farm, Feral and Female, Bell Gallery, Berrima, NSW, Australia
2006 Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Retrospective, Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2006 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 Lexus Mortimore Prize, Dubbo, Australia
2004 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2004 Ferner Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2003 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002 Ferner Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2002 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
2001 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000 Ferner Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2000 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1999 Ferner Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1999 Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1998 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997 Cintra Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
1996 Ferner Gallery, Wellington, NZ
1996 Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996 NZ Realists, Robert McDougall Public Art Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1996 Guest Artist, Inverlochy Exhibition, Wellington, NZ
1996 Dual Horizons, Studio of Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ
1996 Still Life, Group Exhibition, Ferner Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1996 Super Art, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1995 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1995 Cintra Galleries, Brisbane, Australia
1994 Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1994 Ferner Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1994 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1993 Ferner Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1993 Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1993 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1993 ACTA Maritime Award, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Australia
1993 P&O Maritime Award, Sydney, Australia
1993 12 Contemporary NZ Artists, Royal Country Club, Hong Kong
1992 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1992 Melbourne Fine Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1992 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1991 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1991 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1991 Ferner Gallery, Auckland, NZ
1990 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1990 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1989 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1988 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1988 Inaugural A.C.G.A. Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
1987 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1986 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1985 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1985 Guest Artist, Timaru Annual Exhibition, Timaru, NZ
1985 Rosslyn Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
1984 Rosslyn Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
1984 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1984 Montana Art Award, Auckland, NZ
1983 Bealey Gallery, Christchurch, NZ
1983 Guest Artist, Ashburton Annual Exhibition, Ashburton, NZ
1982 Cargo Gallery, Lyttleton, NZ
1981 Cargo Gallery, Lyttleton, NZ
1980 Otago Art Society, Dunedin, NZ
1979 Commonwealth Young Artists’ Exhibition, Royal Overseas League, Christchurch, NZ & London, UK
1979 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