Stephen Birch

Stephen Birch (1961 – 2007) lived and worked Sydney, New South Wales and primarily worked in sculpture. He was concerned with developing sculptural language, drawing inspiration from the natural world and figurative tradition to work against the prevailing aesthetic of abstraction. Birch was a Gertrude Studio Artist from 1989 to 1990 at 200 Gertrude Street. 

Birch’s sculptures and installations employ everyday forms in an attempt to unsettle our sense of the comfortable or familiar. Playing with scale and context and using a range of materials that draw attention to the production process, his works draw audiences into eerie yet humorous parallel worlds, where linear readings become frustrated and the borders between reality and illusion are blurred.