Stephen Bambury (born 1951) is a Christchurch-born, Auckland-based abstract painter.
[1][2] After graduating from the Elam School of Fine Art at the University of Auckland, Bambury received two Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Grants and a residency at Victoria College, in Melbourne, Australia.
[citation needed] Bambury was the first recipient of the Moët & Chandon Fellowship in 1989, leading Bambury to travel to France, where he was based for the next three years.
[3] Initially Bambury showed with the Petar/James Gallery as its youngest artist and later was to have a long-running relationship with Andrew Jensen,[4] whose gallery hosted a number of exhibitions featuring Bambury.
[5][6] His abstract oils have "no decorative, naturalistic, metaphoric or autobiographical references or intents"[7] He is widely held in public art museums in New Zealand, with Te Papa having 15 pieces and correspondence,[8] Auckland Art Gallery having 12 pieces[9] and Christchurch Art Gallery 3 pieces.