Erin Bird
Contemporary artist, UK
Erin Bird (b. 1978) is a UK-based American artist known for her innovative process “waterprinting”—a visual language that merges photography and painting through the elemental force of water.
Born to Irish immigrants in Upstate New York, Bird’s work explores transformation, inherited trauma, and memory, creating layered compositions where personal history dissolves and reforms.
Waterprinting - art shaped by erosion and emergence—where image, identity, and time blur into something newly felt.
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