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 for several years in publishing, including a stint on the editorial team of the vast Macmillan Dictionary of Art. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Bird published poetry, essays and reviews. His first book was a monograph on the abstract painter Sandra Blow (2005). This was followed by The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008) and Bryan Wynter (forthcoming, 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 radio broadcasting includes reviews for BBC arts programmes Kaleidoscope and Night Waves and the BBC Radio 4 feature The Wreck of the Alba (2009).

He lives in Cornwall with his wife and their two children.

Select bibliography

Books

• Sandra Blow (2005)
• The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time (2008) http://search.barnesandnoble.com/St-Ives-Artists/Michael-Bird/e/9780853319566/?itm=1&USRI=the+st+ives+artists%3a+a+biography+of+place+and+time
• Management Guide to Information Technology (2010) http://harvardbookstore.biz/technology.html

Essays and articles

• ‘The perception of symmetry’, Tate Etc. (Spring 2004)
• 'In character: Alexander McKenzie 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’s 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)

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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