Steve Gallagher

Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Steve Gallagher is a UK-based fine art photographer, originally from Iowa in the American Midwest. H...

About the artist

Steve Gallagher

Joined In 2020

(31 Followers)

About the artist

Steve Gallagher

Joined In 2020

(31 Followers)

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Steve Gallagher is a UK-based fine art photographer, originally from Iowa in the American Midwest. He graduated with a Fine Arts degree in Visual Design and Photography from the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and worked as an editorial fashion photographer in Chicago, Miami and New York. He then built a successful career in advertising and design before moving to the UK.

In 2019, Steve and his family settled in Worthing in West Sussex, where his love of photography was reignited by the beauty of the Sussex Downs, the local shoreline and the sea. Surrounded by nature and with an artist’s studio in his garden, his photographic focus on seascapes and floral portraits was almost inevitable. The restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic imposed a time and space to distil his art, allowing Steve to focus on refining and redefining his practice over this period to produce the intricate and skilfully-composed photographs that characterise his work.

Steve's finely-detailed work reflects the very different ways in which moments in time are captured and immortalised, contrasting the dramatic immediacy of the mutable moods of the seas, with the stillness and delicacy of single blooms as they reveal their intricate and fragi...

BFA (Hons) Visual Design
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

The Other Art Fair
London 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Sussex Art Fair
Chichester, UK May 2022, 2023, 2024

Brighton Art Fair
Brighton, UK, September 2024

Art Surrey
Epsom, UK, 2023, 2024

Contemporary Art Fair
Esher, UK Sept. 2021, 2022

The River Show
Star Brewery Gallery
Lewes, UK Sept. 2022

OPEN21 Selection - Translucent No. 6
Worthing Museum, Sept. 2021

Photo Fringe 2020
Brighton, UK Oct. 2020

Solo exhibitions:
'Looking Closer'/'Americana'
Colonnade House Gallery, Worthing, UK, August 2024

'Cloth, Paper, Steel'
Colonnade House Gallery, Worthing, UK, July 2023

'Beautiful World' Exhibition
Colonnade House Gallery, Worthing Feb. 2022

'From the Land Plenty, From the Sea Health' Exhibition
Colonnade House, Worthing, UK Sept. 2020