Michael was born in Kent in 1939, and after making his way to London studied at Goldsmiths College, and later at the Slade School of Art, as well as going on to teach at both institutions. Michael is most well known for the paintings he produced throughout the 1960's and 70's often depicting interior spaces with hallucinatory geometric effects that play with ones perception, employing an impressive array of tonal and formal twists. He has had many shows both here and abroad including Italy, America and Germany, and his paintings and prints are held in numerous…
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Michael was born in Kent in 1939, and after making his way to London studied at Goldsmiths College, and later at the Slade School of Art, as well as going on to teach at both institutions. Michael is most well known for the paintings he produced throughout the 1960's and 70's often depicting interior spaces with hallucinatory geometric effects that play with ones perception, employing an impressive array of tonal and formal twists. He has had many shows both here and abroad including Italy, America and Germany, and his paintings and prints are held in numerous public and private collections, including the V&A, Tate Britain and the Prints and Drawings Department at The British Museum.
Since the 1990's Michael has been attempting to distil the essence of his spatial explorations on canvas into three dimensional form. He presently has a vast number of small maquettes he is working on, some of which he hopes to realise on a much more human or even monumental scale. What lies at the heart of his practice is to present us with visual conundrums and spatial impossibilities which delight the mind and seduce the eye. His sculptures seek to define a visual language open to all, and able to be enjoyed by all, as Michael himself says, "throughout my career I have been interested in attempting to produce images that use a non-narrative content to achieve a purely visual effect."
