Stephen Templer - Illustrator and Artist
Visit Wellington and follow the pungent smell of
Wellington coffee and you will find Steve's studio. Enter this Mount
Cook grotto and you will be in a world full of curious objects and
Mexican Day of the Dead relics. Indulge your imagination and set sail
on a fantastic adventure!
Stephen is a Whanganui Design
School graduate and worked as a designer in Wellington and in London.
During these years, Stephen was also working as an Illustrator and
having exhibitions of his own work.
In the year 2000 after
returning from the UK, Stephen decided to concentrate on Illustration
and his own artwork. So taking his life in his hands Steve embarked on
the perilous journey to becoming a full time Artist and Illustrator.
Harnessing his imagination and un-stoppable energy, he has thrived on
the many challenges which have come his way. This can be seen in his
prolific outstanding work firstly for ad agencies, publishers, and
design shops.
He has also poured his energies into community
projects like murals for the city council and building and designing
elaborate floats and costumes for the Wellington
Batucada, a community Samba band. He is also a member of the
up-and-coming band The Beat Squad and all male dance revue The Leisure Steppers.
Never turning down a great project, Steve has also made stage sets,
music videos and more recently animation. In 2007, children's musicians
Fat Cat and Fish Face commissioned Stephen and his sister Ruth Templer to make
a kid's music video called the The Wreck of the Diddley which featured
in the 2007 International Film Festival. The film was very well received and it has
since been shown in Melbourne and London. Ruth and Steve are working on other animation projects for Fat Cat and Fish Face.
Steve was also
enlisted in Peter Jackson's army, working in the film industry as a
graphic designer and Illustrator on the feature film King Kong and more recently as a props designer for The Hobbit.
Stay tuned to the exciting world of Stephen Templer because you
never know what amazing adventure will be embarked upon next.
Contact Steve on 021 131 7095 or email to
tastyproductions@paradise.net.nz
