Michael Bird (author)
Michael Bird (born 12 April 1958) is a British author and art historian. He was born in London and educated at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School and Merton College, Oxford (1977–80), where he read English. After teaching at Sherborne School he worked in publishing, including a stint on the editorial team of the Macmillan Dictionary of Art. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Bird published poetry, essays and reviews. He has published widely on modern British art; his books include a monograph on the abstract painter Sandra Blow (2005), The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008) and Bryan Wynter (2010).
Bird has written on art, literature and cultural history for many newspapers and journals, including The Times, The Guardian, Modern Painters and Tate Etc.. His work for radio includes contributions to the BBC arts programmes Kaleidoscope, Night Waves and The Essay, and features for BBC Radio 4, including The Wreck of the Alba (2009) and Lanyon's Last Flight (2011).
He lives in Cornwall with his wife and their two children.
Select bibliography
Books
- Sandra Blow (2005). Lund Humphries. ISBN 978-0853319214
- The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008). Lund Humphries. ISBN 978-0853319566
- Bryan Wynter (2010). Lund Humphries. ISBN 978-1848220096
Essays and articles
- ‘The perception of symmetry’, Tate Etc. (Spring 2004)
- 'In character: Alexander Mackenzie and Landscape', Alexander Mackenzie (exhib. cat., London: Austin/Desmond Fine Art, 2007)
- ‘The transformed total: the constructions of Margaret Mellis’, Margaret Mellis (exhib. cat., London: Austin/Desmond Fine Art, 2008)
- ‘I have heard of your paintings: an artist in rehearsal’, Lisa Wright: The Histories (exhib. cat., London: Beardsmore Gallery/Roundhouse, 2008)
- ‘Myth and continuity: Peter Lanyon’s Porthmeor’, Porthmeor: A Lanyon Mural Rediscovered, exhib. cat. (Bath: Victoria Art Gallery, 2008)
- ‘Questions of balance: Sandra Blow’, Sandra Blow (exhib. cat., Beaux Arts London, 2009)
- 'Janet Leach, William Marshall, Jason Wason;,(exhibition catalogue essay on Jason Wason) London: Austin Desmond Fine Art, 2011
External links
- Sandra Blow
- The St Ives Artists
- Interview with Michael Bird
- Article for Tate Etc.
- Article on The St Ives Artists
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