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Interview with Stephen Bambury, New Zealand’s leading contemporary artist
Urbis: How did you get into art?
Stephen Bambury:I was unemployable.
Completely unemployable. I didn’t really have a clue what I was doing.
I ended up doing supermarket design for Bond and Bond, and I realised I didn’t want to do that.
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It was more a question of what I wouldn’t want to do, and really, the only thing that interested me was art. I was very fortunate, I actually had Arnold Wilson as a teacher at Mt Albert Grammar. He’s the kaumatua of the art gallery here, and he didn’t exactly take me under his wing, but he just let me use the art room.
It was the first time I’d had access to freedom like that. He just let me use the room, and I did a huge amount of work, and his encouragement was crucial.
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He took us to Elam on an open day, he took us to galleries. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as contemporary art or dealer galleries. It was just a complete revelation for&nbs