Alan Michael

Alan Michael is an artist from Glasgow, Scotland currently living and working in London, UK. He works mainly within the field of painting, with a parallel practice and interest in writing.

He describes his work as motivated by the implications and values connected to the literal depiction of Reality and to its implied negative associations. By using existing formats for the representation of reality he sees possibilities for presentations of its display at a time when external political messages concerning the nature, value, and ownership of reality are becoming ever more urgent and contested. He sees the aggregate effects of accumulation via these images and words as akin to psychoanalytic sessions, where all material is of potential significance in the project to gain an understanding of the mind of a subject. This subject might be a person, social relations, a product, a city or a State.

He has exhibited widely in Europe and the US in Public Institutions, Non-Profit Spaces and commercial galleries, including Le Bourgeois, Cell Projects, Tate Britain, (UK), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen (D) and Stadtgalerie Bern (CH). Recent solo exhibitions and projects include Jan Kaps Galerie, Cologne (D), Terminal, London (UK) and Jenny’s, New York City (US). Recent group exhibitions include Fanta MLN (I), Schiefe/Zahne (D), and Josey (D).