About
Stephen Dixon is Professor Emeritus in Contemporary Crafts at Manchester School of Art and lives and works in Manchester. His work is represented in major museums and collections in the UK and the USA, including The Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Arts and Design New York, Everson Museum New York, Liverpool Museums and Manchester Art Gallery. His work focusses on contemporary social and political issues through the medium of figurative and narrative ceramics.
The political nature of his practice has been recognised nationally and internationally.
21 Countries focussed on the war on Iraq in 2003 and is now in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He was awarded the first ceramic residency at the V&A in 2009. His installation The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares, which took the form of a Mediterranean refugee boat, won the prestigious British Ceramics Biennial AWARD in 2021.