Erin Bird
Contemporary artist, UK
Erin Bird is a UK-based American artist known for her innovative process waterprinting — her visual language merging photography and painting through the elemental force of water.
Memory yields to water’s slow, insistent change — dissolving edges, loosening control, and reshaping into something unexpected.
This transformation is rooted in personal history — shaped by her father’s political activism during The Troubles and her mother’s unspoken grief — yet it speaks to anyone who has known fracture and renewal.
Through waterprinting, I explore how we erode, reform, and emerge, carrying both the past and the possibility of becoming.
Selected Exhibitions
Inner Rhythm
Group show, APT Gallery, London
April2024
Optic Nerve
Virtual show on Vortic
“The piece is praised for its distinctive ability to encompass fragility and boldness simultaneously”
— Melanie Lenz
Curator at the V&A, London. Judge for 2020 Lumen Prize