Steven Irwin

Steven Irwin is an award winning film maker and photographer. He’s travelled the world in search of modern urbanscapes, iconic architecture and unusual landscapes.

His work explores the tension and coexistence of nature and the man made.

Photographic images are layered and juxtaposed to stage surreal, cinematic scenes rich in possibilities of interpretation: dream-like, elegiac, contemplative.

Steven’s art practice consists of a rigorous exploration of cityscapes, urban landscapes and the fusion of human form and natural environments.

His work often references the early 17th century Vanitas compositions that consist of decaying objects, symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements. As well as customary Vanitas motifs, Steven depicts objects that have rusted – a contemporary representation of decay and mortality.

His skylines and iconic architecture have been modified and arranged to create abstracted scenes which consider the evolution of urban spaces.

Steven Irwin is a Cardiff-based filmmaker and photographer whose work explores themes of decay and civilisation. Steven uses a mixture of analogue and digital techniques to create photomontage cityscapes. Through digital manipulation as well as physical layering, scratching and staining, the artist creates dense, textured images.