Exhibitions

Quercus has a new glass skin, added in 2021. The glass was painted in response to experiencing ancient woodland. At winter solstice 2020, at the end of a year like no other we had ever known, I visited Kingley Vale, an ancient yew forest on the South Downs. The limbs of yew entwined and grew together as if they were a single organism, and created primitive vaulted spaces which are natural...

Rise 4 in progress in the studio 2020 Three Artists – Open Studio Event to coincide with Arts by The Sea Sunday 27th September and Sunday 4th October 12.00 noon to 5.00 pm by appointment Artspace Studio, 44 Southwood Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth BH6 3QB David Bird – recent photographs. David is a photographer and lecturer with over 30 years’ experience, from frontline...

I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature on Hauser & Wirth’s website Homegrown page from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT. Click here to follow the link Special thanks to the New York Homegrown team. “Press Release Hauser & Wirth Launches Homegrown with Artworks by Worldwide Staff and Their...

I am delighted to take part in this philanthropic initiative and my work will feature on Hauser & Wirth’s website Homegrown page from 10th July. It goes live at 10:00 EST and 15:00 GMT. Special thanks to the New York Homegrown team. “Press Release Hauser & Wirth Launches Homegrown with Artworks by Worldwide Staff and Their Families Presented as Bi-weekly...

“Press Release Hauser & Wirth Launches Homegrown with Artworks by Worldwide Staff and Their Families Presented as Bi-weekly Online Exhibitions Proceeds Will Go to Artists with 10% Going to COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO hauserwirth.com Release Dates: 9 May – 18 July 2020 On 9 May, Hauser & Wirth will launch Homegrown, a new platform...

As the pandemic extended my thoughts were taken over with this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem have led to the conditions for a virus such as this coming about. My response to the situation we find ourselves in has been to create a...

Tokyo National Museum is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is huge, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artifacts and sculpture into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist deities, Shinto deities and portraits of people” There is room to appreciate each of...

Nezu is an museum and art gallery with an ancient garden. This was the first Japanese Garden I have visited and was completely seduced. So many careful details: trees are wrapped with a rush like mat, like a tree bracelet. There is no grass! instead there is bare earth or moss or stones, raked gravel The planting was meticulous, water plays an important role and there were connecting...

Koi, temples and aquaponics Recently I returned from a trip to Japan and New Zealand. It was the sort of trip that changes you and I am now creating a new body of work inspired by the experience. My daughter is working in Japan and we traveled out together from London to Tokyo via Moscow. I was excited and curious to go to a city I had heard so much about but never visited before....

Allusion uniquely combines dance, film and glass sculpture and is the result of a creative collaboration between Rebecca Newnham and Lizzie Sykes. It consists of a site-specific dance film projected through and onto a curved sculptural glass screen. The glass sculpture was made to reflect the film, and its enamelled surface...