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Eion Stevens
1952 – 2021
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08 October – 18 October 2025

Eion Stevens was born in Dunedin in 1952 and graduated with honours from
the Otago School of Art in 1973. He attended Exeter College of Art in England
in 1974 and 1975.
Eion sadly passed away 2021

He lived in Port Chalmers for several years and then in Lyttelton, before
moving to central Christchurch after the 2011 earthquakes.

Eion Stevens paintings have maintained a relationship of sorts with literature
for many years, but it would be wrong to assume that they reveal familiar,
narratives and storylines. Rather, literary sources offer a necessary anchor for
images that touch upon memories or fleeting glimpses and revelations about
human behaviour in paintings that acknowledge their respect and affection for
Modernism and the work of artists like Picasso and Derain.

Eion has work in public and corporate collections, including the Christchurch
Art Gallery.