ABOUT
Bonnie and Clyde is a contemporary British artist, working primarily in collage, photography and print. Crossing medium and type, Bonnie and Clyde’s work takes the form of mixed media originals on paper, wood and canvas as well as 3D pieces and limited edition screen-prints. Taking inspiration from music, film, nostalgic iconography and urban spaces, Bonnie and Clyde’s work interweaves themes of the current socio-political climate with emotional and more personal experiences. Travel plays a huge part in shaping her art, and as each image is distorted, cut and layered, Bonnie and Clyde creates bizarre and far off places that still retain an element of familiarity. Steph Burnley (the creative spark behind Bonnie and Clyde) started her creative education studying 3D Design at Kingston University, before moving up to Manchester to set up a graphic design business. Whilst creating posters, illustrations, festival campaigns and book sleeves, Bonnie and Clyde also worked as a photographer, capturing urban fashion scenes for various magazines. After working in both graphic design and photography, she decided to merge the two and pursue a career as a fine artist. Fusing graphic art with photography and screen prints, Bonnie and Clyde soon developed her own unique visual language. Bonnie and Clyde’s interdisciplinary approach takes inspiration from so many aspects of contemporary culture. Artists that inspire Bonnie and Clyde’s process include Tracey Emin, David Hockney, Bill Viola and Sir Peter Blake, whilst street photography, architecture and seascape imagery also play a key role in her aesthetic. Bonnie and Clyde works from her studio in Brighton. She currently exhibits with a number of galleries across the country and sells at art fairs internationally, as well as working on commissions for private collectors. Notable exhibitions include solo shows at 45 Parklane, Lawrence Alkin Gallery and Lilford Gallery, to name a few. In group exhibitions, Bonnie and Clyde’s art has been shown alongside the likes of Gavin Turk, Yoko Ono and Kim Gordon. The iconic topography of California - from the vibrant architecture of Santa Monica to rows of palm trees at Venice Beach - features heavily in Bonnie and Clyde’s imagined scenes. Not limited to a single corner of the globe, Burnley’s jet-setter spirit is reflected in the host of other urban centres (including Tokyo, London, and Havana) that have featured across her oeuvre, while her passion for twentieth-century architecture - from modernism, to brutalism, to post-modernism and beyond - suffuses the overall aesthetic. Using self-taken photographs, Bonnie and Clyde works with a combination of monochrome and highly saturated areas of colour, collaged with textured paint, elements of distressed, heavy paper and magazine cuttings, to represent the beautiful, messy, vibrant and chaotic nature of life in the city. Her work undergoes a combination of digital and tactile processes, which shift back and forth, playing with layers of material, until the final collage or screen print takes shape. Through cut-up, bricolage perspective, each of Bonnie and Clyde’s abstracted pieces tells a story: a dizzying, non-linear narrative of the individual, navigating the dualistic city which is always banal as well as beautiful, terrifying while magnetic.
2024 - T Rowe Price - multi panel artworks project incorporating their archive library with future projections. Over 5 floors of their new UK offices in London's Paternoster Square. 2022 - Daisy Green, London - Large scale original mixed media artwork for Paradise Green, London 2022 - Developed a range of stationery with brand Nineteen Seventy Three 2022 - Large original for Soho House, Beach House Brighton 2021 - Student Castle Commission for a large 3-panel artwork for the Reception of new student residence, Brighton 2021 - Artwork selected for private dining area at Tom Kerridge's Bar & Grill 2021 - Art For NHS - 6 prints selected for the Royal Sussex County Hospital 2020 - Daisy Green, London - Large scale original artwork for restaurant 'Barbie Green' at The Barbican, London 2019 - Daisy Green, London - Cafe Frontage for 'Scarlett Green' Soho, London 2018 - Daisy Green, London - Wall covering for restaurant 'Little Green' at Heddon Street, London 2018 - IF Studio, New York - Roof top map & print of a lux block of apartments in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on behalf of Otto. 2017 - Delta Airlines - commission for LAX airport lounge 2016 - Print Club London – exclusive screenprint collaboration 2014 - Artist Residence Hotel, London – Publicity Illustration 2011 - Artist Residence Hotel, Brighton – Room Design and Paste-Up Plus numerous commissions for private clients.
Exhibitions
2024 (May) - Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London with Liberty Gallery 2023 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London with Liberty Gallery 2023 (June) - Art Yard Sale, with Enter Gallery, Brighton 2023 (May) - 'Breath of Fresh Air' Group Show at Byard Art Gallery, Cambridge 2023 (May) - Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London with Liberty Gallery 2023 (April) - London Pop-Up at the Truman Brewery with Enter Gallery 2023 (May) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London with Liberty Gallery 2022 (November) - Modern Art Buyer Pop-Up, Bath 2022 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London 2022 (October) - Virtual Art Yard Sale, with Enter Gallery, Brighton 2022 (April) - Spring Pop-Up, Bath with Modern Art Buyer 2022 (March) - Electric Gallery, London group show 'Who Run The World?' 2021 (December) - Modern Art Buyer - Winter Pop-Up, Bath 2021 (December) - Affordable Art Fair Online Christmas Market 2021 (October) - Enter Gallery spotlight show & Box Set showcase, Brighton 2021 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London 2021 (July) - Affordable Art Fair 30-Artist Summer Exhibition 2021 (July) - Modern Art Buyer - Pop-Up, Bath 2021 (June) - Affordable Art Fair x Campari 'Art Without Walls' campaign, London 2022 (April) - Enter Gallery - 'Chasing The Sun' Group Show, Brighton 2021 (March) - Hang-Up Gallery viewing room for International Women's Day 2021 (January) - West Contemporary Editions hang Bonnie and Clyde at Kerridge's Bar & Grill, London 2020 (December) - Modern Art Buyer - Winter Pop-Up, Bath 2020 (November) - Affordable Online Art Fair, with Liberty Gallery 2020 (October) - Virtual Art Yard Sale, with Enter Gallery, Brighton 2020 (August) - D'Stassi Art Collaboration, London 2020 (July) - Pool Party Group Show, Oxford, Sarah Wiseman Gallery 2020 (February) - Affordable Art Fair, Milan with Liberty Gallery 2020 (January) - Commission for Daisy Green Restaurant Group at 'Barbie Green', The Barbican 2019 (December) - Modern Art Buyer - Winter Open House, Bath 2019 (November) - Modern Art Buyer - Pop-Up at Gainsborough Bath Spa Hotel 2019 (November) - EAST Art Fair, Old Spitalfields Market, London 2019 (October) - The Viewing Room ,TVR, Sheffield - Solo Show 2019 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam with Liberty Gallery 2019 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Liberty Gallery 2019 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm with Liberty Gallery 2018 (September) - For Arts Sake, London - 'A Printmaker's London' Group show 2018 (July) - Print Club London x Help Refugees UK - 'Choose Love; Group Show/Auction, Somerset House London 2018 (July) - Commission for Daisy Green Restaurant Group at 'Scarlett Green', Soho, London 2019 (June) - Modern Art Buyer - Open House, Nr. Bath 2019 (June) - Art Yard Sale presented by artrepublic, Brighton 2019 (May) - Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead with Liberty Gallery 2019 (May) - artrepublic, Brighton - Mixed Originals Group show 2019 (May) - For Arts Sake, London - 'Glitter Bunnies' show 2019 (March) - Modern Art Buyer - Bath Pop-Up 2019 (March) - Gone Rogue Gallery at ME, London Hotel - Group show 2019 (January) - Affordable Art Fair, Milan with Liberty Gallery 2018 (October) - Hicks Gallery, London - 'The Cut' Group show 2018 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm with Liberty Gallery 2018 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park with Liberty Gallery 2018 (September) - Solo Showcase at artrepublic, Brighton 2018 (August) - House of Artists x Circle Contemporary, Cornwall 2018 (June) - Art Yard Sale presented by artrepublic, Brighton 2018 (May-August) - Royal Overseas League, London, with Liberty Gallery 2018 (March) - Affordable Art Fair, New York with Liberty Gallery 2018 (March) - Affordable Art Fair, Brussels with Liberty Gallery 2018 (January) - Affordable Art Fair, Milan with Liberty Gallery 2017 (October-November) - Lilford Gallery, Kent. SOLO SHOW 2017 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Liberty Gallery 2017 October) - Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm with Liberty Gallery 2017 (August-October) - 45 Park Lane, Mayfair with in Association with Ackerman Studios and Liberty Gallery. Solo Show 2017 (May) - Art Yard Sale presented by artrepublic, Brighton 2017 (May) - Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath with Liberty Gallery 2017 (March/April) - Affordable Art Fair, New York with Liberty Gallery 2017 (February) - Affordable Art Fair, Brussels with Liberty Gallery 2017 (January) - London Art Fair, Business Design Centre with Liberty Gallery 2016 (November) - Edinburgh Art Fair 2016 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Liberty Gallery 2016 (October) - Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm with Liberty Gallery 2016 (Sept - Nov) - Tower 42, City of London 2016 (June) – Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead with Liberty Gallery 2016 (June) – Art Yard Sale with Artrepublic, Brighton. 2016 (June) – ‘Pop-Pop’ at The Curious Duke, London 2016 (February) – Affordable Art Fair, Brussels with Liberty Gallery 2016 (January) – London Art Fair, Islington with Liberty Gallery 2015 (October) – Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Liberty Gallery 2015 (October) – Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm with Liberty Gallery 2015 (August) – Druck Berlin Screenprint Festival 2015 (July) - ‘Mix’ Summer Group Show at Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London 2015 - (June) – Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead with Liberty Gallery 2015 (May) - 20/21 International Art Fair in London with Liberty Gallery 2015 (March) - Lilford Gallery, Canterbury Joint exhibition with Maria Rivans 2015 - (February) – Affordable Art Fair, Brussels with Liberty Gallery 2015 (January) – London Art Fair, Islington with Liberty Gallery 2014 (November) ‘Mix’ Winter Group Show at Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London 2014 (November) - ‘Subterraneans’ at Leeds Collage of Art - an exhibition exploring the wider implications of Beat culture and visual art with Gavin Turk, Yoko Ono, Sam Taylor-Wood amongst many others. 2014 (October) Moniker Art Fair, London with Ink_d Gallery 2014 (July) - ‘Mix’ Summer Group Show at Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London 2014 (May) - ‘Super Vision’ at Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London. Joint show with Maria Rivans. 2014 (August) ‘A Slice of Summer’ Group show at Ink_d Gallery, Brighton 2014 - Represented by Liberty Gallery at, AAF in Battersea, Hampstead AAF, Stockholm AAF, Brussels AAF and the London Art Fair 2013 (Nov) ‘Mix’ Winter Group Show at Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London 2013 (August) – ‘Sub Pop Art” & ‘On the Malecon’ Leeds College of Art Solo Show (double venue) 2013 - Represented by Liberty Gallery at, AAF in Battersea, Hampstead AAF, Stockholm AAF, Brussels AAF and the London Art Fair in 2013 Various other shows prior to 2013 – list on request