Provenance:

Benson & Hedges Art Award, 1980 - finalist Fletcher Trust Collection

Illustrated p. 42 Stephen Bambury Wynstan Curnow and William McAloon Craig Potton Publishing 2000.

Born in Christchurch, Stephen Bambury studied at Elam School of Fine Arts graduating in 1975 with a Dip.F.A. Hons. In 1979 he received a QEII Arts Council grant which he used to travel to North America. In 1989 as the first Moet et Chandon Fellow he spent nine months in France. He returned to Paris in 1990, remaining there until 1992. On return to New Zealand he established a studio in Auckland. He has exhibited regularly and widely throughout New Zealand since 1975. This work is one of the artist's Block paintings though unlike most of them, Area Series Red is not constructed of two canvasses bolted together. Area Series Red was a finalist in the Benson and Hedges Art award 1980.