Stevie Ronnie | Baltic|States Residency 2025 (UK)

BIO

Stevie Ronnie is an interdisciplinary artist based in Northumberland, UK. At the heart of his practice is an intrinsic enquiry into language: its intricacies and its material possibilities. He is interested in what cannot be said and what is lost in translation in the context of our changing world.

Stevie’s work has been exhibited across the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA, including group shows at: Urawa Art Museum, Tokyo; Baltic, Gateshead; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Centre for Book Arts, New York; and Centre for Literature, Münster. His works are held in public and private collections worldwide including those of the British Library, the Bodleian Library, Urawa Art Museum and UCA. Stevie has received two MacDowell Fellowship in the US for his interdisciplinary works and has published several books of poetry, which have been recognised through a Northern Writers Award, a Jerwood / Arvon menteeship and three longlistings in the UK National Poetry competition. In 2023 he was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize and in 2024 he was named on the shortlist for the Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize.

PROJECT

During his residency at NART, Stevie will collaborate with the local community in Narva to explore connections between the borderlands of North Eastern England and Eastern Estonia. Drawing on the languages that are rooted in the rich industrial heritages of these regions, he will begin a new body of participatory installation works that seek to foster kinship in the context of the shared political and environmental challenges that we currently face.

The residency takes place in collaboration with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Kai Art Centre.