Stephen Bird

Born 1964 in Stoke on Trent. Lives and works Sydney (AUS) and Dundee (UK)
Bird initially trained as a painter but now works across a range of mediums. Bird studied Fine art at Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and post graduate studies at Cyprus Art College. He has made ceramics and sculpture since early 1990’s. Bird has exhibited throughout the United Kingdom, Australia and the USA. Collections include the National Museum of Scotland, Art Gallery of South Australia and Artbank Australia. Bird has undertaken a number of significant commissions and is featured in Contemporary Ceramics, international Perspective by Emanuel Cooper, published by Thames & Hudson 2009. He lectures at the National Art School, Sydney.

LATEST NEWS

My Dad was Born On The Moon

2nd August – 4th September 2013

The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh EH3 6HZ
www.scottish-gallery.co.uk

Edinburgh International Arts Festival

Peripheral Visions: Contemporary Art From Australia

Opening Reception: May 7, 2013 | 6PM - 8PM
Exhibition Dates: May 8 – June 14, 2013
Phoebe Rathmell performance: May 15, 2013 | 4:30PM – 8:30PM

Garis & Hahn
263 Bowery, New York, NY 10002

For more infomation see the official flyer(PDF)
or
Visit the Garis & Hahn website

Melbourne Art Fair, Australia's premier visual arts event returns to the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building from 1-5 August 2012

Stephen will be exhibiting with The Gould Galleries on stand E18

For more infomation:
www.artfair.com.au/fair/

2012 Redlands Westpac Art Prize

3 May - 2 August
NAS Gallery, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst

For more infomation:
www.redlands.nsw.edu.au/go/redlands-community/redlands-westpac-art-prize

Stephen Bird
Where the wild roses grow

REX IRWIN
Art Dealer

31 January - 25 February, 2012

Click here to view the exhibition catalogue

First Floor, 38 Queen Street,
Woollahra NSW 2025 Australia
Phone: (02) 9363 3212
Website: rexirwin.com

HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics

8 October 2011 – 8 January 2011

A provocative and engaging exhibition of work by Australian artists using clay in unexpected and surprising ways, HYPERCLAY: Contemporary Ceramics highlights the versatility of this time-honoured material and, in doing so, re-imagines its possibilities.

Staffordshire Psycho

Andrew Baker Art Dealer
10 August - 10 September 2011
26 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills Qld.
Opening drinks with the artist 6 - 8pm on:
Friday 26 August 2011
Gallery hours: 10am - 5pm, Tuesday - Saturday or by appointment

Contemporary Applied Arts

2 Percy Street, London W1T 1DD
International Focus Showcase of the ceramics of Stephen Bird.
29 July-3 September 2011

Placement

Touring exhibition
ORIEL DAVIES GALLERY, WALES. 16 April – 6 July 2011
St ANDREWS MUSEUM, SCOTLAND. 17 September -20 November 2011

Featuring contemporary ceramic objects by artists with connections to Wales and Scotland, this exhibition explores the narrative possibilities of ceramics through material, form, history, image and context.

The focus of the exhibition explores the notion of ‘place’ and ‘placement’ and highlights important associations in the field of ceramics which concern location, geography, ritual, commemoration and the souvenir. From large sculptural pieces to intimate figurative work, Placement presents a fresh perspective on our relationship with ceramics. Welsh ceramicist, Lowri Davies and Scottish ceramicist, Dawn Youll were invited by Oriel Davies and Fife Contemporary Art & Craft to curate Placement to explore and celebrate the diversity of current ceramic practice in Wales and Scotland. The exhibition also includes pieces by nine key artists, including Stephen Bird, Claire Curneen, Ken Eastman, Nick Evans, Laura Ford, Anne Gibbs, David Shrigley, Cecile Johnson Soliz and Conor Wilson.

Collect 2011, 6th - 9th May

Stephen will be showing work with Bluecoats Display Centre at this year’s COLLECT. Relaunched at the Saatchi Gallery in May 2009, COLLECT has an enviable reputation as a premier, annual fair for contemporary craft. Through its presentation of work from the best international applied artists, COLLECT has become a prestigious event in the international cultural calendar gaining the respect and support of many private collectors, museum curators and galleries.

War on Pottery 16th November - 18th December 2010

Stephen Bird will be exhibitng work at:
Rex Irwin - Art Dealer, Downstairs, 40 Queen Street, Woollahra, NSW 2025

War on Pottery

War on Pottery is a selection of works from Stephen Bird’s Industrial Sabotage series of ceramics, which re-interpret the tradition of mass produced ornamental ceramics made in Stoke on Trent in the 18th and 19th centuries. He uses humor propaganda, trompe l’oeil and meaningless violence to re-tell archetypal myths and comment on complex collective issues including politics, cultural imperialism and the global power struggle...

Stephen will be exhibitng as part of the Laughter exhibition presented by Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania

Artists: Stephen Bird, Ben Booth, Andrew Harper, Henri Papin (Mish Meijers & Tricky Walsh), Raom & Loba (Valerie Livory & Omar Martinez) and Nicole Robson.

The fifth gallery exhibition on CAST’s diverse 2010 program of contemporary art is laughter, a group show curated by Victor Medrano (CAST Emerging Curator 2010). Laughter features funny artwork from five Tasmania artists, one UK artist and two French artists.