Mike Roles

Introduction

I am both a practicing sculptor and photographer. My work can be purely sculptural, photographic or the drawing together of both mediums into what I call ImageSculptures as exemplified in my body of work Loves & Vanities. This method was also the subject of my PhD research entitled Two Kinds of Being - An Interface Between Sculpture and Photography.

Sculpture
Welcome To The Third Millennium takes it’s theme from the rhetoric and hype which heralded the third millennium as a chance for a new beginning, a better and more peaceful world. My aim is to comment on humanity's position at the beginning of the new millennium. The work does not presume to have any specific ideological or political position but it invites its audience to move among and engage with the life-sized sculptures, so as to encourage them to bring their thoughts to bear upon the challenges which face humanity and possibly its survival.

ImageSculpture
Loves and Vanities is an attempt to make sense of my own humanity and mortality through examination of my relationship with both my past and present, the loves and joys, pain, fears and anxieties that existence entails, together with relationship between body and mind, time and decay, life ...

Royal College of Art, PhD, Sculpture
Royal College of Art, MA, Photography
University of Westminster, Diploma in Photography
St Martins School of Art, National Diploma in Painting
Associate of The Royal British Society of Sculptors

A Selection of Solo Exhibitions:
“PhotoSculpture” Espace Guyot. Paris,
“Loves and Vanities” The Royal Photographic Society’s National Centre for Photography. Bath,. (A major national exhibition)
“Loves and Vanities” The Atlantis Gallery, London.
“Loves and Vanities” The Portfolio Gallery, London.
“Collisions with Time” Broomhill Sculpture Park, England.
“Welcome to the 3rd Millennium” ArcArt Gallery. London
International Exhibitions include:
The Rotterdam Bienale RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands “Fotofeis” Scottish International Photographic Exhibition, The Aberdeen City Art Gallery,
Work currently on show at:
Broomhill Sculpture Park, Devon, England, (Permanent Exhibition Welcome to the Third Millennium)
ArcArt, London