Bird Skins

A solo exhibition in collaboration with digital artist Bill Newsinger, to showcase 12 new works and a film inspired by the natural sciences’ collection at New Walk Museum in Leicester. With a focus on the order, variety and beauty of colour in nature using paint, wax pastels, spray paint, ink, graph paper and 24 carat gold leaf onto photographs of birds from the collection.

Stevens was inspired by Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours, an early colour dictionary, outlining colour matches across the natural kingdoms. Darwin referred to it in his notebooks from the voyage of The Beagle.

The exhibition was on display at the Lightbox Gallery at the LCB Depot in Leicester between 29 May – 12 June 2019. Read the full press release here.