Georgina Coburn’s book Journeyman – The Art of Steve Dilworth is the first comprehensive investigation of the life and work of this important, groundbreaking artist. Based on five years research and extensive interviews, the story of Dilworth and the evolution of his remarkable work is examined in detail, revealing one of the country’s most innovative and globally significant artists.

“When I began my research in 2014, I wanted to answer the question of what makes a Dilworth? His work is so powerful and its effect on many people, lasting and profound. In Dilworth’s objects, as so often in life, what is most valuable is hidden inside. His art holds nature close, in ways our global consumer culture has too long discarded. I think what Dilworth’s art connects us to has increasing urgency. The intention behind it and the way that his work is integrated into peoples’ lives is unlike anything else in contemporary art. Dilworth’s work is a living example of why art matters and acknowledgement of his importance in the history of Art is long overdue. My intention is to shine a light on his uncompromising, visionary work, opening up a wider conversation about the value of art outside the art world.”

Georgina Coburn, art historian and author of Journeyman – The Art of Steve Dilworth

Since the 1970s, Steve Dilworth has been redefining art in his approach to making objects and handling of natural found materials. His extraordinary work crosses many boundaries in terms of how we think about sculpture, art objects, and our relationship with the natural world.

Paperback and limited edition hardback editions of the book are available from Francis Boutle Publishers https://francisboutle.co.uk/products/journeyman-the-art-of-steve-dilworth/ and will be released in January 2024.

Georgina Coburn has been an arts writer for over 20 years. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, she lived in Canada, the UK and Ireland before settling in the Highlands of Scotland in 2000.

Georgina’s work as an art historian, arts writer and critic has consistently highlighted artists forging their own path in the disciplines of Visual Art, Film and Photography. In 2014 she established her arts blog and has worked with numerous galleries, magazines, and journals. In 2018 Georgina’s short story The Projectionist was published in Reel to Rattling Reel: Stories and Poems About Memories of Cinema-Going by Cranachan Press. In 2022 her poem Harvest was published in All Becomes Art- Part One, an anthology of new writing in response to the art of Joan Eardley by Speculative Books. Journeyman – The Art of Steve Dilworth is her first full length work of non-fiction.