Stephen Bowers Ceramics

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Stephen bowers ceramics. South australian ceramic artist stephen bowers creates richly decorated ceramics which reflect his interest in aspects of craft traditions natural history memory and commentary. Here he discusses how the fragmented images have influenced his own richly decorated ceramics. The ceramic art of stephen bowers with its complex surfaces and the capriccios being acted out upon them issues an irresistible invitation to look closer. Stephen bowers katoomba new south wales australia born 1952 the links of charmshire an antipodean homage to grayson perry 2007 earthenware with underglaze painting 7 0 h 65 0 diameter cm purchased 2009 with funds from the meredith hinchliffe fund accession no.

Whether a cockatoo festooned palaceware vase from the 1980s or a mid 1990s tea set involving the artist s understanding and control of technical possibilities such as multiple firing underglaze paint colours and intricate line. Bowers draws on many historical and cultural influences while imagining his own sophisticated transforming earthenware oriental or occidental ceramic traditions since antiquity have undergone many cross. Stephen bowers b 1952 sydney lives and works in in norwood south australia is a self taught artist working in ceramics often focusing on strikingly decorative textiles wallpapers comic strips natural history illustration found within the imagery of his childhood in the mid 1970 s. Stephen bowers 1953 present biography.

Stephen bowers born in 1953 is an australian dedicated to ceramic art that became involved in ceramics while working as an art teacher in regional south australia in the late 1970s. Wheel thrown earthenware underglaze color clear glaze 7 x 61 cm. Following the success of his australia wide touring exhibition 2013 2015 and growing international recognition bowers continues to celebrate and provoke with his beautifully detailed decorated ceramics. While maintaining a respect for the master techniques stephen bowers flamboyant and exuberant ceramics combine a classical ceramic heritage with inspiration from indigenous sources and are spiced with dashes of wit.

Finding shards of blue and white china as a child led australian ceramic artist stephen bowers on a technical and symbolic journey of discovery. Stephen bowers in the land of the dodo 2013.