Red Tailed Black Cockatoo Platter, 2018

<p>South Australian ceramic artist Stephen Bowers creates richly decorated ceramics which reflect his interest in aspects of craft traditions, natural history, memory and commentary.</p> <p>‘I am interested in the ability to look back and re contextualise stories, interpret meanings and examine the legacy of traditions. As well as studying the Australian urban landscape I look at its biological and zoological information and explore Australia’s diverse and multiform human culture. I treat ceramics as a blank canvas upon which I can create pictures, working with unusual decorative techniques more often encountered outside of the familiar patch of the potter. A lot of my images arise in spontaneous ways – a sort of improvised stream of unconsciousness and I explore skills and techniques – particularly the traditional ceramic arts and crafts of the Orient and Europe.’</p> <p>Stephen Bowers has exhibited both nationally and internationally and his work is held in a number of private and public collections.</p> <p>Public Collections include:</p> <p>Art Gallery of South Australia; Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art; Museum of International Ceramic Art, Denmark; National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan.</p> <p><strong>Stephen Bowers was the subject of a solo exhibition <em><a href="{entry:71388@1:url}">Unearthed</a></em> in September 2018.</strong></p>