Biography
Born and educated in the UK, moved to Australia in 1989.
Although very much an emerging artist, Michael has already had two exhibitions at Edmund Pearce Gallery in Melbourne, has had work hung twice in the NPPP at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, at the Head On Portrait Prize, and at the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize at the NSW State Library, amongst many others.
Michael has always been visually motivated, from discovering pictures within the pattern of the wallpaper of his childhood bedroom, to his back and forth love affair between oil painting and photography, and his 30+ years working as an art director.
As an artist Michael likes to utilise a hybrid of skills and techniques with the aim of portraying a concept in a visually poetic way, to deliver the photographic component as more of an artful process rather than just a document.
