Mike Hinc

I paint what I see and it's not always pretty. I create lurid, seductive, sometimes gawky worlds which the viewers can enter at their peril. I am interested in the process by which the practice of dreaming becomes political, in the bite back of unprocessed imagery, in the immaculate deception of pay and display designer consumerism and the brain roof chatter of a society drunk on celebrity, high on hope, addicted to super abundance and the biggest bag of marbles. I paint the antidote. I sleep a lot (it helps me dream) and strive to imbue my work with joy, passion, wit and a knowing crumbiness ubiquitous in contemporary culture.

BA Fine Art (First Class Hons) University of Hertfordshire
BA English - Bedford College , London University
Art and Design Diploma (Distinction) Ware Regional College

PUBLICATIONS
July 2014 Interview - FOUR CULTURE magazine -
"MIKE HINC - from terror to wonderment"
http://issuu.com/fourculture/docs/fourculture_issue_7/84
EXPOS
Oct 2014 - L'art s'invite à Magrie - Le Garage, Magrie, Aude. France
June 2014 - Arthé Expo - Café de Fa — Fa, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
Feb 2014 Round Table [collaboration] Postal Collage No.3, Berkeley, California, USA
May 2013 Blaue Stunde V, Altes Pfandhaus, Cologne, Germany, 3 videos
May 2013 Round Table [collaboration] Postal Collage No.2, Berkeley, California, USA
Mar 2012 Round Table [collaboration] Postal Collage Project No.1, Ramons Tailor, San Francisco,USA
Jan 2012 Blaue Stunde IV, “On the Road”, Cologne, Germany. Group show, 5 videos and 40 photographs