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Michael Kirkbride NEAC

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Finishing Touch

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Distemper on Linen on Board
60 x 21 cm (68 x 29 cm framed)
£1,200
Related exhibition:
NEAC | Annual Exhibition 2022

Skater, Hampstead

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Distemper on Linen on Board
30 x 18 cm (38 x 26 cm framed)
£1,200
Related exhibition:
NEAC | Annual Exhibition 2022

The Attendant

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Oil on Canvas
137 x 92 cm (143 x 98 cm framed)
£7,000
Related exhibition:
NEAC | Annual Exhibition 2022

The India Club

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Oil on Canvas
137 x 92 cm (143 x 98 cm framed)
£7,000
Related exhibition:
NEAC | Annual Exhibition 2022

Doing a "Tacita"

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Distemper
22 x 26 cm (39 x 41 cm framed)
£700
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Mid-Century Shoppers

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Oil
137 x 90 cm (147 x 100 cm framed)
£7,000
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

Plenary - RADA

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Distemper
22 x 26 cm (39 x 41 cm framed)
£700
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021

The Curious

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Michael Kirkbride NEAC
Distemper
22 x 26 cm (39 x 41 cm framed)
£700
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2021
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About Michael Kirkbride NEAC

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

Over recent years Michael’s work has focussed on people, gesture, objects and styling. The introductions of surrealistic elements have added an absurdist twist to works which oscillate between observation, recollection, and imagination. An interface between the banal with the incongruous is a recurring pictorial device, where one scenario is often hybridized with another.

Above all his works are supposition; they seek to make visible narratives that exist in the minds eye. The idiosyncrasy of invention is the primary tool, with the human figure as the dominant structural motif.

Method of Working

Michael’s paintings are essentially conjured. Their creation relies partly on his visual memory, and partly on events experienced or imagined. Each painting begins with the accrual of many animated thoughts and vignettes in a sketchbook. These eventually amalgamate into a cohesive pictorial design, essentially becoming maps for the final work.

His compositions are honed and reworked over several weeks and months, which continues into the painting process, as the work often calls itself into question. Keenly aware of the limits of imagination, he will refer to the photograph, the internet, and magazines for inspiration, underpinning this with observational drawing. The act of drawing is central to his creative process; he will often draw impulsively on whatever comes to hand and later collate these fragments into a notebook. The books become an archive of the paintings evolution. Oil paint and egg tempera are his current preferred media.

Biographical Details

Born 1959   County Durham.

1997 to 1980   BA Hons. Fine Art, Sunderland Polytechnic

1992 to 1995   Post Graduate Diploma in Painting, Royal Academy Schools London

1996 to 2011   Senior Lecturer: Visual Studies, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts.

2004    Elected member of New English Art Club.

2014    Appointed curator of New English Art Club Drawing School.

Society Memberships

New English Art Club

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

2014   Odgers Berndtson Purchase Prize, Curwen Gallery

2013   David Messum Prize, New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition

2013   Doreen Mackintosh Prize, New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition

1995   Royal Academy Schools Travel Award to visit Mexico.

1990   Northern Arts Travel Award to attend FIFA World Cup, Italy.

1988   Northern Arts Bursary.

1987   Northern Arts Bursary.

Other exhibitions

2016   Lynn Painter Strainer’s Prize.

2015   Royal Academy Summer Show.

2014   Curwen Gallery Painting Prize.

2013   The Royal Academy Summer Show.

2013   The Art Movement, Panter and Hall, Pall Mall London.

2013    The Perfect Nude, Wimbledon School of Art and Phoenix Gallery, Exeter 

2010   Russell Gallery, The Art of the Flaneur.

2010   Dangerous Corners,  JHW Fine Art, Cork St., London

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