Coastal Defences . RSA collections
Elected ARSA: 16 March 1983
Fred Stiven was born in Fife and was educated at Thurrock School in Essex and Beath High School in Cowdenbeath before studying design at the Edinburgh College of Art from 1946 to 1950. He was awarded a postgraduate scholarship in 1950-51.
Prior to National Service in the army, he was a lecturer in typography and on release from the army he worked for four years with Fife Education Authority before joining the Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen in 1958. His teaching was centred on the importance of draughtsmanship and many of his former students owe much of their visual education to him.
