(Time passes slowly) Up here in the mountains, 2018, Michael Vale
Oil on linen 122cm x 92cm
Provenance: James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.
Michael Vale is a visual artist, curator and academic. In 2006 he completed his PhD at Monash University with a multi-media “art fiction” project entitled Le Chien qui Fume – A Smokey Life. In 2006 he was awarded Best Film on Art at the prestigious Asolo Artfilm Festival in northern Italy for a video work entitled The Long Walk. He has also been a finalist in the Archibald Prize on two occasions, with portraits of rock’n’roll musicians Dave Graney & Clare Moore in 2012, and Warren Ellis in 2013. His work The Great Divide, 2016 has won the Hutchins Australian Contemporary Art Prize 2018. For the last twenty years has been teaching in art schools including Monash University, RMIT, and the Hong Kong Art School. (1)
Artist Statement
“Every time I lift a paintbrush I feel a continuum with every painter, past present and future. For me, paintings are always alive, offering us glimpses into parallel universes. In this context, making my work seems like time travel, a passport to the vast variety of planets that make up the galaxy of painting. Here time is elastic, interchangeable and, ultimately, a mirage!”
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