Author Archives: Michael Freedman
Human Remains
This installation refers to man’s left overs in the process of destroying our planet. Even in Antarctica, our last true wilderness, there is an abundance of evidence pointing to man’s uncaring attitude to our environment. Whether its explorers, research scientists, whalers or tourists, they leave ugly scars on the pristine landscape. One example is the [...]
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There is no planet B
We are continuing apace to devastate and destroy our planet. It is unlikely to last another 100 years without significant loss of life, land, species and a major change in life-style by the survivors, of whom some have estimated there will be but 30% of the current population, even allowing for population growth. My art [...]
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Ageism in the Art World
I could either be erudite and write a reasoned analysis of the situation or tell it like it is. I have opted for the latter. I am really pissed off with the organisers of the majority of the competitions that seek artists to enter them. Many restrict entrants to those who are under 35! I [...]
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Exhibition Success
I held a successful exhibition at Shaftesbury Arts Centre. It’s a great space with good lighting and allowed me to show 11 large works of my Stonehenge oil on canvas exploits as well as my mixed media, including acids, on rusted steel experiments. The work was very different to what they normally see there which [...]
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Stonehenge and Wildernesses
This is the title of my one person exhibition at the Shaftesbury Arts Centre to be held from Sunday 31st July to 6th August inclusive and from 10:30 to 16:30 daily. Two types of work will be shown, the first commemorating Stonehenge from the inside and painted in oil on canvas and the second, in [...]
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“Three” at Putney School of Art and Design …A Great Success
The opening of the show on 20th March was a great success with well over 100 people attending from all over the UK. The three artists, Mike Freedman, Lianne Chan and Jessica Rutterford provoked controversy by presenting a show very different to the usual exhibitions held there. It was called refreshing by Gavin Maughling a [...]
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Exhibition of new work in Putney 20th to 26th March
I shall be having an exhibition of new work at the Putney School of Art and Design, Oxford Road, Putney from 20th to 26th March in collaboration with two colleagues from Wimbledon College of Art, Lianne Chan and Jessica Rutterford. My work will be on the subject of wildernesses, abstracted in acid and oils on [...]
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That’s Entertainment
The solo exhibition of my “That’s Entertainment” collages at the Playhouse Theatre in Salisbury will be seen by at least 51,000 people, the number of seats sold during the course of the exhibition that runs until January 31st 2011. Everyone who enters the auditorium must mount one of two small staircases where the works are [...]
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Raphael Tapestries
Now that the Maps exhibition at the British Library is over, the thing to see in London is the exhibition of Raphael’s tapestries made for the Sistine Chapel, on at the V & A for a short period. they are supported by the original cartoons owned by none other than HM Queen….. They are astounding [...]
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Updated News, March 2012