STEPHANIE HESS:
Stephanie is an award-winning sculptor based in Dublin.
Born in Singapore to Irish parents with a taste for adventure, Stephanie lived widely throughout
Europe, Canada and the States before settling in South Africa from 2000-2014. This period saw her
explore ceramics and sculpture under the tutelage of local and international artists. She found a
bronze casting course in 2003 to be an exhilarating introduction to the medium, sparking a love for
the material and the process. Stephanie and her family came to live in Ireland in 2014 and she
began casting her work with CAST foundry in Dublin. Within a few months she submitted her work
to the prestigious Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition for the first time and was awarded the
ESB Moran Award and Medal for Outstanding Sculpture.
Her distinctive patinas play an integral part in conveying the characters of her stylized animals
brimming with whimsy, playfulness, humour and tenderness.
“My childhood bookshelf has been a great influence in my life. The adventures, hopes and dreams of
the little creatures anthropomorphized in the stories of Beatrix Potter, A.A. Milne, Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame to name but a few, have given me a sense that anything is possible in a world
inhabited by animals who sail rafts, bake pies, drive cars, make cups of tea and head off on
adventures!”
For Stephanie, sculpting is all about joy.
Her works appear in private collections and gardens throughout Ireland, the UK, Spain, Germany,
Switzerland, Hong Kong, South Africa and the United States.
EXHIBITIONS:
2004:
Gallery Sharon – Flight of Fancy – debut show
2004-2014: South Africa, various in Somerset West and Stellenbosch
Since Settling in Ireland:
2015:
1) RHA 185 th Annual Exhibition
*awarded ESB Moran Award and Medal for Outstanding Sculpture*
2) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Group Show
3) SOLOMON Fine Art at 50 th Irish Antique Dealers Fair
4) Greenacres Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition
5) SOLOMON Fine Art – Forty x Forty, A Celebration of Cast Bronze Foundry
6) Greenacres Wexford Christmas Group Exhibition 2015
7) SOLOMON Fine Art Winter Group Show
2016:
1) Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation – Hares on the March, a public art initiative
2) The Kildare Gallery at Carton House – Into the Forest Deep, Group Show
3) SOLOMON Fine Art Easter Group Show
4) The Kildare Gallery – Garden of Sculptures at BLOOM 2016
5) The Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital Exhibition 2016
6) Graphic Studio Gallery Summer Group Show
7) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Group Show
8) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Sculpture Pop-Up
9) Graphic Studio Gallery – Urbis Felicitas, Group Show
10) SOLOMON Fine Art at 51 st Irish Antique Dealers Fair
11) The Kildare Gallery at Carton House – Vanishing Art, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
12) Greenacres Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition 2016
13) SOLOMON Fine Art at VUE 2016, RHA
14) SOLOMON Fine Art Winter Group Show
15) Greenacres Wexford Winter Group Show
16) Graphic Studio Gallery Winter Group
2017:
1) Graphic Studio Gallery – Visual Rhythm, Group Show
2) Graphic Studio Gallery – EQUINOX, 3 Woman show
3) SOLOMON Fine Art Easter Group Show
4) Greenacres Wexford Summer Group Show I
5) Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation – INCOGNITO at SOLOMON Fine Art
6) The Kildare Gallery – Garden of Sculptures at BLOOM 2017
7) Greenacres Wexford Summer Group Show II
8) The Kildare Gallery – BLOOM at Carton House
9) Graphic Studio Gallery Summer Group Show
10) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Group Show
11) Greenacres Wexford Summer Group Show III
12) Ceramics Ireland – Clayworks at the Printworks, Dublin Castle
13) Royal Ulster Academy’s 136 th Annual Exhibition
14) The Kildare Gallery at Carton House – Vanishing Art, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
15) Ceramics Ireland – Annual Selected Members Exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle
16) Greenacres Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition 2017
17) SOLOMON Fine Art Winter Group Show
18) Graphic Studio Gallery Winter Group Show
19) Greenacres Wexford Winter Group Show
2018:
1)”Menagerie” – SOLO SHOW -Solomon Fine Art
2) SOLOMON Fine Art Easter Group Show
3) Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation – INCOGNITO at SOLOMON Fine Art
4) The Kildare Gallery – Garden of Sculptures at BLOOM 2018
5) Greenacres Wexford Summer Group Show
6) Ceramics Ireland – Clayworks at the Printworks, Dublin Castle
7)The Kildare Gallery – Carton Summer Show
8) Graphic Studio Gallery Summer Group Show
9) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Group Show
10)GOAL-What on Earth, a public art initiative with Goal Global
11)The Kildare Gallery – Carton Under the Sky
12)Sculpture in Context – Botanic Gardens
13)F.E. Mc William – Open 18 Outdoor Sculpture
14)Kilkenny Festival – Darkness into Light – Ceramics Ireland
15) Ceramics Ireland – Annual Selected Members Exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle
16) Greenacres Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition 2018
17) SOLOMON Fine Art at VUE 2018, RHA
18) SOLOMON Fine Art Winter Group Show
19)The Kildare Gallery – Winter Group Show
20) Greenacres Wexford Winter Group Show
21) Graphic Studio Gallery Winter Group Show
22)Royal Overseas League London – Incognito 2018
2019:
1) Greenacres Wexford Spring Show
2) Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation – INCOGNITO at SOLOMON Fine Art
3) SOLOMON Fine Art Easter Group Show
4) The Kildare Gallery – Garden of Sculptures at BLOOM 2018
5) Greenacres Wexford Summer Group Show
6) The Kildare Gallery – Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at the Montenotte Hotel Cork
7) Oli Bennet Charitable Trust Secret Postcards – London
8) The Kildare Gallery Outdoor Sculpture at Kildare Village
9) Graphic Studio Gallery Summer Group Show
10) Ceramics Ireland – Clayworks at the Printworks, Dublin Castle
11) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Group Show
12) The Kildare Gallery – Carton Summer Show
13) Sculpture in Context – Botanic Gardens
14) Ceramics Ireland – Annual Selected Members Exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle
15) Royal Ulster Academy 138 th Annual Exhibition
16) Greenacres Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition 2019
17) Graphic Studio – Classwork 2019
18) SOLOMON Fine Art at VUE 2019, RHA
19) SOLOMON Fine Art Winter Group Show
20) The Kildare Gallery – Winter Group Show
21) Greenacres Wexford Winter Group Show
22) Graphic Studio Gallery Winter Group Show
2020:
1) SOLOMON Fine Art Easter Group Show
2) Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation – INCOGNITO
3) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Group Show
4) Greenacres Wexford – Discover Print 2020
5) ARC Fundraiser for Cancer Support
6) The Kildare Gallery – Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at the Montenotte Hotel
Cork
7) Sculpture in Context – Botanic Gardens (virtual)
8) Greenacres Wexford Festive Exhibition 2020
9) Royal Ulster Academy 139 th Annual Exhibition
10) SOLOMON Fine Art Winter Group Show
11) Greenacres Wexford Winter Group Show
12) Royal Overseas League London – Incognito 2020
2021:
1) SOLOMON Fine Art Easter Group Show
2) Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation – INCOGNITO
3) Solomon Fine Art – International Sculpture Day
4) Ceramics Ireland – Annual Selected Members Exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle
5) Oli Bennet Charitable Trust Secret Postcards – London
6) The Kildare Gallery at Carton House
7) Ceramics Ireland – Clayworks at the Printworks, Dublin Castle
8) Greenacres Wexford – Discover Print 2021
9) Boyle Arts Festival – “Crossings” – Invited Artists Exhibition at King House
10) SOLOMON Fine Art Summer Group Show
11) The Kildare Gallery – Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at the Montenotte Hotel
Cork
12) “KALEIDOSCOPE” – SOLO SHOW -Solomon Fine Art
13) Greenacres Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition 2021
14) Royal Ulster Academy 140 th Annual Exhibition
15) Greenacres Wexford Winter Group Show
16) SOLOMON Fine Art Winter Group Show
Awards:
*ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture
Commissioned by Lord Mayor Hazel Chu through Design Yard:
*Lord Mayor Awards 2020/2021 (7 awards)
*Freedom of the City of Dublin Award 2020/2021 (1 award)
*Lord Mayor of Dublin Youth Awards 2021 (11 awards)
