Press
Parkin Prize
Judges Statement 2013
Sharpen Your Pencils The Dominion Post 21 August 2013
Drawing Still Central To All Art The Dominion Post 21 August 2013
Drawing A Piece of Paper Nets $20k Prize The Dominion Post 27 July 2013
NZ Painting and Printmaking Awards
Surreal Ballpoint Landscape Wins Award The Waikato Times 04 March 2014
Prizes Awarded 2014 The Waikato Times 04 March 2014
Signs of Skill and Talent The Waikato Times 15 February 2014
Wallace Art Awards
2014 Winners
23rd Wallace Arts Awards One News TVNZ 1 Septmeber 2014
2015 Undiscovered Artists
Art Collector magazine (Australia) Issue 72 April - June 2015
Stephen Ellis by Leafa Wilson in 20/20. Twenty Artists / Twenty Writers / One New Zealand Gallery, ed Apperley, Gomez, Rakish and Sanderson, publ. Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland 2015
On Point by Warwick Brown
New Zealand House & Garden magazine Issue No.259 March 2016
The Power of Penmanship
Denizen magazine Issue 18 Autumn 2016
Art Collector Alert
Warwick Brown, New Zealand House and Garden magazine July 2016
NZ Herald
13 December 2017
Otago University Press
David Howard, The ones who keep quiet, publ. Otago University Press, 2017
Stephen Ellis by Emil McAvoy in 20/20. Twenty Artists / Twenty Writers publ. Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland 2017
Auckland Print Studio in Grabado y Edicion magazine No. 60 Junio/June 2018 (publ. Grabado y Edicion SL, Madrid)
Simply You Autumn 2019
What's in the Stockroom? Art Collector website 14 March 2019
What's in the Stockroom? Art Collector website 3 April 2019
Art New Zealand Number 177, Autumn 2021
Art Collector Number 101, July - September 2022
Artzone magazine online, August 2022
Lamp Black Stephen Ellis by Emil McAvoy, exhibition essay, 2023
Art News N0. 201, Autumn 2024
Parkin Prize
Judges Statement 2013
Sharpen Your Pencils The Dominion Post 21 August 2013
Drawing Still Central To All Art The Dominion Post 21 August 2013
Drawing A Piece of Paper Nets $20k Prize The Dominion Post 27 July 2013
NZ Painting and Printmaking Awards
Surreal Ballpoint Landscape Wins Award The Waikato Times 04 March 2014
Prizes Awarded 2014 The Waikato Times 04 March 2014
Signs of Skill and Talent The Waikato Times 15 February 2014
Wallace Art Awards
2014 Winners
23rd Wallace Arts Awards One News TVNZ 1 Septmeber 2014
2015 Undiscovered Artists
Art Collector magazine (Australia) Issue 72 April - June 2015
Stephen Ellis by Leafa Wilson in 20/20. Twenty Artists / Twenty Writers / One New Zealand Gallery, ed Apperley, Gomez, Rakish and Sanderson, publ. Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland 2015
On Point by Warwick Brown
New Zealand House & Garden magazine Issue No.259 March 2016
The Power of Penmanship
Denizen magazine Issue 18 Autumn 2016
Art Collector Alert
Warwick Brown, New Zealand House and Garden magazine July 2016
NZ Herald
13 December 2017
Otago University Press
David Howard, The ones who keep quiet, publ. Otago University Press, 2017
Stephen Ellis by Emil McAvoy in 20/20. Twenty Artists / Twenty Writers publ. Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland 2017
Auckland Print Studio in Grabado y Edicion magazine No. 60 Junio/June 2018 (publ. Grabado y Edicion SL, Madrid)
Simply You Autumn 2019
What's in the Stockroom? Art Collector website 14 March 2019
What's in the Stockroom? Art Collector website 3 April 2019
Art New Zealand Number 177, Autumn 2021
Art Collector Number 101, July - September 2022
Artzone magazine online, August 2022
Lamp Black Stephen Ellis by Emil McAvoy, exhibition essay, 2023
Art News N0. 201, Autumn 2024