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PHIL BIRD M.A.

Phil Bird has had  a prolific  career over many years as a Painter, Musician, poet and initiator of multi disciplinary and collaborative Creative Arts Projects in a wide variety of educational contexts.

Phil gained an M.A. in fine Art from Goldsmiths college London  in 1983. His career has included significant contributions to fine art degree at Oxford Brook University, and foundation at Berkshire college of art, he has been visiting painter at many other colleges , art centers and museums. Phil was course leader for foundation art at the Henley College Oxon 1991 – 1995. In 2006 after an Artists residency at Cyprus College of Art, he was appointed course leader for Foundation stidies. He now lives in Cyprus, but maintains Art Project and performance links in UK and elsewhere.

His work has been reviewed in Arts Monthly, Arts Review, Artists Newsletter, Visual Studies magazine and Artscribe International.

The Artist has shown work in Britain, Germany, USA, and Cyprus, and has work in a number of collections including Southern Arts, Reading Museum, Berkshire education Authority, the Gottlied collection, The Russel Cotes and other private collections.  He has received two major bursary and several minor awards from Southern Arts. In June 2008 he was a delegate in Jerusalem for the British council open space  event "Looking  in and facing out". (How can we best use international partnerships to enrich professional  development in the Art?)

   
       
       
       
       
       
       
         
   

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