Michael Aitken

Contact: mike_aitken@talk21.com
Music: The Afghan Whigs, Nick Cave, Otis Redding, Super Furry Animals, The Velvet Underground, TV On The Radio



Previous exhibitions:
 
North by Northwest @ Tate Liverpool
Crapola Central @ The Basement, Liverpool
5th House exhibition @ Mariners Wharf, Liverpool
From the egg to the Apple @ Red Wire, Liverpool
From the Egg to the apple @ Apothiki, Paros, Greece
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
JMU Graduates @ The Urban Coffee Lounge
Space Limited @ 52 Roscoe St
 
    
"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

 
   
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 unceratain 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 realtionships, mistakes made and lessons learned, the connections and the divides, the selctiveness of memory and the subjectivity inherint 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....

   

 
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