Professor Stephen Dixon combines studio ceramics with regular public and community projects; in 2000 he received an Arts Council ‘Year of the Artist’ award for a collaborative project with Amnesty International and Kosovan refugees. In 2009 was commissioned to produce the ceramic sculpture ‘Monopoly’ for the British Ceramic Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent. Dixon is currently engaged as Professorial Research Fellow in Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, investigating political narrative and the contemporary printed image. He was recently engaged as the first artist-in-residence in the new Ceramic Galleries at the V&A.
