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: 

'Fear and Optimism' @ Bloc Projects, Sheffield

Pencil it in @ Red Wire, Liverpool

 

'Soup' The Gateway Building @ Liverpool

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