About

AWARDS

• Winner of the Cork Street Open Exhibition Prize 2013 and the Visitors Choice Prize.
• Winner of the Best Sculpture Prize at the ING Discerning eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries 2013.
• Winner of the Best Sculpture Prize at SWA exhibition 2014.
Winner of the first prize
( purchase prize)
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2014.
One of Dee's sculptures has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in Cyprus.(2013) Now on show at The Museum of Loukia and Michael Zampelas. Cyprus.

HISTORY
2012

Dee Stanford has exhibited in 2012 at The York and Albany, Regent’s Park; the Art For Youth Show at The Royal College of Arts; the Bentliff exhibition at The Maidstone Museum and The Hazlitt Theatre in Kent.

2013

Dee has exhibited in the Cork Street Open Exhibition, the ING Discerning Eye exhibition and the London Art for Youth exhibition. 
 
2014

Featured Artist at Winter Pride.
Featured Artist at "Office Session" (East India Docks)     
Royal Society British Artist Exhibition (Mall Galleries)
Brighton Open House.
Society of Women Artist exhibition (Mall Galleries)
AAF Hampstead.(June) 
Art For Youth (Royal College of Art)
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition. (Mall Galleries)

2015

The London Art Fair
RBA Exhibition
Bentlif Open Exhibition
SWA Exhibition
Hadlow Kent Show 
"Collective View" @ Store Street Gallery (Joint Exhib)
New York Affordable Art Fair
LAFY Exhibition
Solo Exhibition
ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
The Notting Hill Collective

​2016

The London Art Fair
Dee has been working on commissions from both the UK and USA and has produced two unique sculptures for charities.
Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards
​Commission for Pride Auction
Society of Women Artists
Art for Youth London
Commission for Diversity Role Models
Battersea Art Fair
​Discerning Eye Exhibition

2017

The London Art Fair
AAF Milan
Currently working on private commissions including five original bespoke sculptures for Charity Gala Events including:
Pride UK
Diversity Role Models
Albert Kennedy Trust
Battersea Art Fair
​Art for Youth London (Mall Galleries)

2018

The London Art Fair
Chelsea Art Fair
RBA Exhibition (Mall Galleries)
LBWomen Art Exhibition (Curator and Exhibitor)
LGBT Arts Initiative (Curator and Exhibitor)
​Society of women artist (Mall Galleries)
LGBT exhibition at The Library, London (Curator and Exhibitor)

2019
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London art fair (LAF)
Foreign exchange exhibition
Cotswold sculpture park

Dee's works can be purchased by calling
07788 287880 or email

Selected pieces can also be seen at  Panter and Hall Gallery, 11 Pall Mall London
Contact: +4420 7399 9999

ARTIST STATEMENT

The style, flavour and the subject matter of all my sculptures are reflective of my experiences, the injustices and challenges that reflect inequality in today’s world.
The sculptures provide a subtle but vociferous comment on the issues that are most poignant to the artist, including discrimination against women, the LGBT community and global inequalities. Stanford believe that the sometimes controversial aspect, challenges some of the stereotypical norms and serves as a reminder of the challenges of modern times.
The sphere series shows the infinite nature and evolving states through time or momentum.  Repetition and Parliament, for example, illustrates how mankind tends to evolve but make the same repetitive mistakes. The theme of chains throughout much of my work, illustrates the repression that we inflict on our own kind.
There is a strong sense of structure and physics in her sculpting. Dee creates powerful and robust shapes and concepts but with balance which is ever present in natural physics. Most of Dee's sculptures are bronze but she often incorporates unorthodox materials from steels to rusty HGV chains, she creates fantastical works that tell a personal story.

Not always heart warming but always mind stirring.


BACKGROUND

Like most artists the flavour, the style, the subject matter itself of Dee’s work are reflective of her life experiences, her ‘take on life’.

Originally from and now living in the UK, Dee Stanford had spent most of her adult life living in Cape Town where she worked on her sculptures and paintings, learning primitive methods and blending them with a more Western approach.

She is a trained architect and a committed artist. .

As a small child Dee was a severe introvert and struggled to communicate. She was directed to use art as a form of therapy to help communication. Her childhood experiences and life in a somewhat repressive Africa have influenced her style of work, there is a strong theme around repetition, many pieces feature chains and none of her sculptures are given faces.