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Eion Stevens was born in Dunedin in 1952, and after studying print-making and painting, graduated with honours from the Otago School of Art in 1973. After his graduation he travelled to Europe several times; during the first foray, he studied at Exeter College of Art, England. Eion has exhibited regularly throughout New Zealand since 1979, when he was still in his twenties, and his work is included in important public and corporate collections, and in private collections, both here and overseas.
In 1999 a survey of his work was mounted at the James Wallace Trust Gallery, Auckland. He works as a fulltime artist and lives and works in Lyttelton, Christchurch. He is known as one of the most affordable mid-senior investment artists, the value of whose work is steadily rising.
Eion’s paintings have been written about extensively in major NZ art publications including NZ Art: A Modern Perspective by Elva Bett, 100 New Zealand Paintings by Warwick Brown, and in Art New Zealand. His work also receives frequent coverage in national publications like The Listener, The Sunday Star-Times, The New Zealand Herald, The DomPost, The Press and The Otago Daily Times, and it has been used as the cover art for work by a number of New Zealand authors.
Inspired by folk music and popular song, politics, memory, the stage and poetry, his work is witty, spirited, wide-ranging, sardonic, and quirky. The longer you look at Eion’s apparently whittled-down images, the more they reveal their sidelong sense of humour, their smart social commentary, and often a disarming combination of irony and tenderness.