Artist Profiles

Stefan Gec

Born 1958 Huddersfield, England

Stefan Gec’s practice takes on various forms including sculpture, film & photography and recently computer generated animation. One substantial aspect of his work stems from his fathers experience as a refugee from the Ukraine following the Second World War. 

Commissioned projects by Stefan Gec detailed in the Locus+ Archive include:

Trace Elements, 1990
Natural History, 1995
Buoy, 1996
Long Distance, 2004

Trace Elements, Publication, ISBN 1-899377-05-0, 1996
Buoy, Multiple, 1996 
Vengeance, Multiple, 2004 

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Buoy, 1996

A fully operational ocean-going buoy fabricated by recasting the steel from the artist's previous project Trace Elements (1990)

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Natural History, 1995

Six large black and white photographic portraits of the first six firemen who died trying to contain the fire within the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.

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Trace Elements, 1990

Trace Elements was part of TSWA Four Cities. It comprised eight large bells cast from decommissioned Soviet submarines installed at the base of the High Level Bridge.

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