Biography
Michael Bowdidge (born Ilford, 1967) is an artist, researcher and educator who works with found objects, images and sound. He received his undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1989, and completed his doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh in 2012. His PhD took the form of a practice-based investigation into the possibilities and context of contemporary sculptural assemblage considered in relation to the later philosophy of Wittgenstein and the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Michael has been a member of faculty at Transart Institute since 2008 and currently supervises post-graduate and doctoral students there while also playing an active role as an Associate Artist at Whale Arts in Edinburgh and Slumgothic in Lincolnshire. All of these activities enrich his teaching practice and his creative output equally – as, for him, these two areas of endeavour are fundamentally intertwined.
Michael exhibits regularly nationally and internationally and is represented by Bendintheriver. He currently lives in Scotland with his partner and step-children and also has an expensive vintage Meccano habit.
Michael has been a member of faculty at Transart Institute since 2008 and currently supervises post-graduate and doctoral students there while also playing an active role as an Associate Artist at Whale Arts in Edinburgh and Slumgothic in Lincolnshire. All of these activities enrich his teaching practice and his creative output equally – as, for him, these two areas of endeavour are fundamentally intertwined.
Michael exhibits regularly nationally and internationally and is represented by Bendintheriver. He currently lives in Scotland with his partner and step-children and also has an expensive vintage Meccano habit.