Biography
Stefan Gec (b. Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK 1958) of Ukrainian descent, studied at Huddersfield Polytechnic (1983-84), Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic (1983-84) and Slade School of Fine Art, London (1991-93). Gec gained The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Sculpture and Installation Award (1996-97). He has taken part in numerous group shows in Britain and abroad, among later solo shows, projects and works being Natural History, Ukrainian Cultural & Education Centre/Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, 1998; Vengeance, Lux Gallery, 2001; The Outside World, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, 2002; Untitled; Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2003; and Long Distance, Globe City, Newcastle, and The elephant’s foot, at Annely Juda Fine Art, both 2004. His projects have included sculpture, film, photography and computer-generated animation, which he'd said had “tapped into notions of movement, dislocation and history that stem from my own family background.” The Arts Council, for which he carried out a commission in 2003, holds his work and the Contemporary Art Society commissioned him, with a Henry Moore Foundation grant, in 2004 and presented Sputnik (2005) to Huddersfield Art Gallery.
