Paradise Parrot (last seen November 1927)
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Contemporary
Paradise Parrot (last seen November 1927)
Medium earthenware, underglaze colour, clear glaze
Dimensions diam. 33 cm
Date 2024
Details

signed verso

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Internationally acclaimed ceramicist, Stephen Bowers ​p​resents a flock of birds across a series of plates, portrayed in bright colours against complex, fragmented backgrounds inspired by designs from ceramics, engravings and textiles. ​W​ith ornate patterning ​a​nd inspired by the history of art and design​, these works speak to the idea of pattern-in-nature and nature-in-pattern and reflect on the tensions of humanity’s appropriation of the natural world for our own use, the fragments representing this broken relationship.

Provenance

the artist

Exhibited

Stephen Bowers: A Conference of Birds, Lauraine Diggins Fine Art, Melbourne, 26 October - 7 December 2024

Feathered: Birds in Myth and Memory, Manning Regional Gallery, NSW, 26 Sep - 29 Nov 2025