Michael Hales

The work tries to explain an aggregated view of my world. Satellite imagery, photography and personal experience all contribute. The work currently is a combination of encaustic and oil paints on to birch ply. Hot wax/resin can be mixed with pigment and poured, painted, trowelled or flicked onto the surface. Lots of layering means heavy scrapping back and scaring bring back covered surfaces. I focus on the familiar and the everyday. The work does not take a particular viewpoint but has a sense of pieces and objects considered and explored.
I am currently working from my studio in Emly.

1990 Foundation Art and Design, Berkshire school of Art and Design.

1993 BA hons in Fine Arts, University of Central England, Birmingham, UK.

Group Exhibitions.
“Vandalism Monument IV”, technician, 2012
"Young at Heart”. MAC, Birmingham, May 1994
“The Final Show”, Birmingham School of Art, June 1993.
“The Peripheral”, Maidenhead Library,July 1992.

Solo Exhibitions.
“10 x 8 Show”, Beframed, Cork. 2019.
Horizons II, Rhyme or Reason. Excel Centre, Tipperary. 10th April to 25th May 2019.
“Horizons!”, 9th Feb - 8th Mar 2019. South Tipperary Arts Centre. Clonmel.
“Blink and You’ll Miss It!”, 12th Jan - 19th Feb 2019. Craft Granary Cahir.
"RENDER”, 19th Jan - 20th Feb 2015. Tipperary Excel. Tipperary.