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.
“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