Stephen Smith aka Neasden Control Centre is a contemporary British artist and illustrator. Stephen makes works that draw on a constant process of construction and deconstruction primarily through painting and drawing. He is searching for a brutal beauty that exists between these states.

Instagram: #neasdencontrolcentre

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Selected Exhibitions

2020 The Island Show, Galleri Kant, (group show), Fanø, Denmark
2019 Desire Lines, Mini Galerie, (Solo) Amsterdam
2019 The Island Show, (group show) Galleri Kant, Fanø, Denmark
2019 Flat Earth Trap, (group show) Galerie Slika, Lyon
2019 A Take On Paper, (group show) Galleri Kant, Copenhagen
2018 Deep End Echo, Sid Motion Gallery (with Joanne Hummel-Newell), London
2018 Dirty Voyage, Schau Fenster, (group show) Berlin
2018 Blind Spot, Delimbo Gallery (with Jeroen Erosie), Seville
2017 Code Art Fair (with Mini Galerie), Copenhagen
2017 British Artists Summer Show, Heals, (group show) London
2017 Current Mood (with Jeroen Erosie), Galerie Celal M13, Paris
2016 Shifting Ground, Hestercombe Gallery, (Solo), Taunton
2016 Object Matter, (group show) Mini Galerie, Amsterdam
2016 Radical Utopias, Mini Galerie, (Solo) Amsterdam (Solo)
2016 Unstable Monuments, (group show) Victoria Wharf, Truro
2015 Col.la.ge II, Minigalerie, (group show) Amsterdam
2014 Inland Art: Assemble Now, (group show) Cornwall
2013 Three Man Show, Protein Gallery, (group show) London
2012 Play, Game, Place, State, Collyer Bristow Gallery, (group show) London
2011 Smoke fall, Tintype Gallery, (group show) London
2011 Get The Papers, Galleries Goldstein, (group show) London
2010 More With Less, Mu, (Solo), Eindhoven
2010 Working Drawings, SIA Gallery, Sheffield
2010 Autumn Show, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, US, Co-Curated by Eddie Martinez (group show)
2009 Das Herz Von St Pauli, Iguapop Gallery, (group show) Barcelona
2008 Take Away, Calm and Punk Gallery, Tokyo
2008 Now Jump!, Nam June Paik Centre, (group show) South Korea
2008 5 Year Show, Helium Cowboy Gallery, Hamburg (Solo)
2008 Scope Art Fair, Basel (with Helium Cowboy Gallery)
2007 Little Land, Helium Cowboy Gallery, Hamburg (Solo)
2006 Spank The Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, UK
2006 Bar Leandro, Helium Cowboy Gallery, Hamburg (Solo)
2003 Crossed New Territories of Avant Garde, Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona

Publications

2016 Shifting Ground, Hestercombe Gallery
2013 The Age of Collage, Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, Gestalten
2010 More With Less, MU
2009 Now Jump!, Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea
2007 Lost Control, Neasden Control Centre, Gestalten
2006 Spank The Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gestalten
2006 Smithfield Building, Neasden Control Centre, Rojo
2003 Neasden Control Centre, Gestalten
2003 Crossed, New Avant-Garde Design Territories, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

Awards / Residency / Private collections

2018 Shinola Hotel, Detroit
2016 Hestercombe Gallery, Residency
2016 Plymouth Arts Centre, Batter Street Studio, Residency
2014 CalArts | California Institute of the Arts
2011 Unknown Fields Division (Chernobyl, Aral Sea + Russian Space Centre) Residency
2008 British Council Visual Arts Award
2006 Arts Council of England Visual Arts Award

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