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Stephen Bowers

Stephen Bowers

Beyond bravura

Damon Moon, John Neylon, Stephen Bowers

Stephen Bowers makes pottery that fires the imagination. He combines rich, modern life experiences with skills and traditions that stretch back thousands of years to create complex works full of wonder. From familiar, everyday items, to the transformative alchemy of deluxe and super deluxe bravura museum pieces, his art is acclaimed and collected across Australia and overseas.

This is the first major publication devoted to Stephen Bowers' craft. It shows how the history of his working life as an educator, studio manager and arts administrator melded with his artistic career to produce an original and outstanding contribution to contemporary Australian ceramics. Mapping the artist's inspirations, influences and ideas, detailing the formation and development of his practice, this book discusses his creative techniques and methods, and explains the importance of his collaborative approach to making work. Stephen Bowers: Beyond Bravura celebrates the intellect, imagination and inventiveness of an original Australian artist whose career extends already over 35 years.

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Dr Damon Moon has worked as a writer, curator, researcher, lecturer and maker across various areas of the arts, from contemporary Asian art to the crafts. He has published extensively on the history of Australian ceramics, completing a PhD on the impact of Bernard Leach’s seminal 1940 text ‘A Potter’s Book’ on the development of the Australian crafts movement in its formative years.

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John Neylon is an Adelaide-based art writer and curator and formerly Head of Education, Art Gallery of South Australia. He is the author of numerous essays and several Wakefield Press books on South Australian artists, is a regular reviewer and columnist for the Adelaide Review and winner of the national 2014 Scarlett Award for writing on contemporary sculpture. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (ACIA).

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Stephen Bowers makes pottery that fires the imagination. He combines rich, modern life experiences with skills and traditions that stretch back thousands of years to create complex works full of wonder. From familiar, everyday items, to the transformative alchemy of deluxe and super deluxe bravura museum pieces, his art is acclaimed and collected across Australia and overseas.

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ISBN   9781743052327
CATEGORY   
IMAGES   Full colour throughout
PAGE COUNT   160
DIMENSIONS   280 x 235 mm