Artist Talk: Stephen Bird

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Stephen Bird as he presents an image lecture on the development of his
ceramic practice, including details about his 2010 digital stop-frame
animation project and how his work has been shaped and influenced by this
project.

Stephen Bird utilizes his formal training as a painter to bring narrative
to life within his ceramic sculptural works. He explores the darkly human
themes of “cruelty, war, and unnatural affections” through subtle portrayal
in the context of old myths and comforting English pottery visual references.
The cloaked, mutinous works employ scale, color, form, and “random
inclusions” to seduce viewers into a deeper interaction. Bird earned his BA
in Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland in 1987,
his Post Graduate at Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Paphos, in 1988, and a
Higher National Certificate in Ceramics at Angus College of Further Eucation,
Dundee, Scotland in 1998.

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