Michael Aitken
Contact: mike_aitken@talk21.com
AN magazine interview: http://www.a-n.co.uk/degrees_unedited/article/536825
Artists Statement
I make things.... Big lumps of stuff all wrapped around, tucked
under, holding up, holding down, tied to, bolted to, concealing and
revealing each other.... Big lumps of stuff that take in bits of
sculpture, collage, text, drawing, painting, film, performance and
anything else that takes hold of me.... I like this, this not belonging
to one medium, that every piece has many existing all at once within
themselves. I like this because, to me, it seems awkward and uncertain
and, truth be told, that equates into my own ideas that surround my
work.... i mine my own private world, the various intricacies of
different relationships, mistakes made and lessons learned, the
connections and the divides, the selectivity of memory and the
subjectivity inherent in it all.... I try to be cryptic, my version of
cryptic that is, so not to give too much away, I am secretive about where all this comes from.... So that's me then, big lumps of different
stuff mined from somewhere uncertain trying to be cryptic....
Previous exhibitions:
Sept 08 - North By North West, Arts @
Trinity, Leeds Jan 09 - Soup at the Citadel, The Citadel, St.
Helens Apr 09 - Soup at View2, View2 Gallery,
Liverpool Aug 09 - Decomposition, Novas
C.U.C. Liverpool 'Fear and Optimism' @ Bloc Projects, Sheffield Pencil it in @ Red Wire, Liverpool
'Soup' The Gateway Building @
Liverpool North x northwest @ Tate Liverpool
Crapola Central @ The Basement, Liverpool Roy Casltes Vision of Hell @ Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool
From the Egg to the apple @ Apothiki, Paros, Greece& @ Red Wire, Liverpool
Soup @ Bright New Art, New Brighton
Aiming for Heights @ International Gallery, Liverpool
]BracketTHIS[ @ Arena Gallery, Liverpool
Soup Vs Gespachio @ Cube Noir, The Albany buiding
"Post-It" @ Atkinson Gallery, Southport
One @ Red Wire, Liverpool
"There are no rules here/ I've been making stuff up from the
beginning/ I'm just a lonely boy/ Would you be my company/ But that's
just stupid man/ i need a better plan/ Delicate and refined"
dEUS, Pocket Revolution
