Stephen Bowers : Conference of Birds

Internationally acclaimed ceramicist, Stephen Bowers presents 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. With ornate patterning and 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.