19 February – 24 March 2013
Viewing: 19 February 19:30 – late
Michael Lacey, presents After The Flood, solo exhibition
About Michael Lacey:
I am primarily interested in the role of narrative in art and everyday
life, and the relationship between fiction and its creators. I use
various 2D media to present scenes in which recurrent characters and
symbols allude to an over-arching mythology and themes of mortality
and isolation. These scenes are often fantastical or absurd, but always
inspired by real experiences.
While dense with personal significance, the work in AFTER THE FLOOD is
intended to create a contemplative space for the viewer, often guided
by bleak humour, cultural references and visual cues. The mixed-media
canvasses depict a bleak, purgatorial coastal landscape and the
travels and rituals of its inhabitants. Combining drawn/painted
elements with various collaged materials suggests a blurring between
the real and the fictive, the mingling of individual and shared
experience, as archival imagery of well-known architecture is
reconstituted into strange yet familiar forms. Amidst these
suggestive scenes, techniques derived from classical painting and
modern comic books are used to convey fragmented, parabolic
narratives.
Michael Lacey is an artist and writer based in Liverpool. He studied
Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in
2009 and receiving the Walter Hutcheson Prize for drawing. He has
since exhibited widely around the UK. Recent projects have included a
large collage mural in Glasgow and a limited edition comic book which
attracted praise from Alan Moore.
Opening Night Tuesday 19th Feb
Exhibition continues until 24th March.