Michael Rickett

Mike Rickett M.A.
Mike Rickett’s art explores the relationship between space, geometry and colour in an attempt to capture on canvas the physical and non-physical phenomena associated with the modern industrial city, its architecture, dynamism, and complexity.

His work encompasses three distinct forms - hard-edge, geometric urban paintings and 3D reliefs as well as two-colour studies of Liverpool scenes and woodcut prints, also mostly of Liverpool scenes. In 2014 he produced six World War 1 studies to commemorate that conflict that went on exhibition throughout the North West in the UK.

He was also the founder of the Liverpool School art movement in the UK which has the basic aim of redefining urban art in geometric painting, both 2D and 3D, using city life and buildings and transportation as its inspiration – anything which depicts and portrays the rhythms of urban life. As an aesthetic, the urban landscape may be regarded as the vision a society projects about itself into the future.

Mike’s work creates structure and a visual language as well as providing references to the past and the future and other dimensions in time and space.
Mike has been a student of fine art for eight years, first achieving a Foundation Degre...

BA (Hons) University of Liverpool
Foundation degree in Fine Art
BA(Hons) Liverpool Hope University
MA Liverpool Hope University

Solo exhibition. Clove Hitch gallery, Liverpool
Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Atkinson Gallery, Southport
Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
Royal Birmingham Society of Arts
Arteology, Colne, Lancashire
Liverpool Cathedral (3)