Phil Bird - A Meeting of the Ways

Kypriaki Gonia Gallery presents the painting exhibition entitled “A Meeting of the Ways” by Phil Bird.

The Exhibition will be opened by the distinguished Sculptor Kikis Patsalos on Tuesday 15 February 2011 at 7.30 p.m.

Painter and songwriter Phil Bird. Phil has shown Internationally (in Britain, Germany, U.S.A and Cyprus); His Paintings are in public and private collections including Southern Arts, The Gottlieb Collection, Russell Cotes Museum and Karayianni Collection Cyprus. His work has been reviewed in many journals such as Arts Monthly, Arts Review, and Art scribe international. He was awarded an M.A in Fine Art from Goldsmiths college London in 1983.

Phil made Cyprus his home in 2005 with his studio at Cyprus College of Art; where he was Painting Master of Foundation studies until 2010; working alongside Stass Paraskos and Andreas Efstathiou. Phil regularly visits the island, keeping Visual Art and musical links alive and to meet with dear friends.

Artist Statement: "This Exhibition is a celebration of my engagement with the rich cultural and historical melting pot which is the ancient land of Cyprus.

I am fascinated by Archaic art-forms and myths of origin, with the deeply mysterious, wonderful and strange visions capes of myth poetic imagination, and with this continuously shifting vision of what it is to be human. The desire to explore such experiences, fires my passion and need to paint and create music.

This visionary realm that we call art is a transfiguration of reality. It can be specific to a culture or 'a meeting of the ways ', a crossing over from people to people, from time to time; I feel that this realm, has much to show us concerning where we have come from and who we are as a species , biologically, culturally and spiritually. To be a painter and Musician is to be practically involved with the materials and methods of the creative process. Out of this raw stuff, we create metaphorical worlds of imagination. Such worlds connect our everyday lives with vaster encompassing mythic narratives. Here, themes that seem ancient and themes that seem contemporary are forever together at play"

Music will be performed by Phil Bird on Guitar and the Painter musician Anna Georghiou on Flute.

Opening Hours
10:00 - 13:00 & 16:30 - 20:00