Artist
Mychael Barratt PRE
Mychael Barratt was born in Toronto, Canada and has been living and working in the UK since 1984. He is a painter and printmaker whose detailed work is often as narrative as it is visual and was the commissioned artist for the Globe Theatre throughout Mark Rylance’s reign as Artistic Director. His book Intaglio Printmaking was published by A & C Black in 2008 and in 2011 he was commissioned by the law firm T V Edwards to paint a large-scale, external mural on the side of their offices at 33 Mile End Road, London E1 near the site of the 2012 Olympics.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 2002 and at the AGM in 2013 was elected its President (PRE).
“Although I am not an illustrator and do not create artist’s books, my art is singularly linked to my bookshelves. A lifetime of scanning artist’s monographs and reading everything from pulp fiction to classics has invested my work with a vocabulary of half remembered impressions and brazenly pilfered imagery. Sometimes these borrowed images will register with the viewer with a curious sense of déjà vu and other times with a hearty laugh – either of these reactions are valid and welcome. Above all else my desire is to communicate my preoccupations and passions whilst never forsaking either my sense of humour or my technique.”
Mychael Barratt PRE
Mychael Barratt PRE
Mychael Barratt PRE
Mychael Barratt PRE
Mychael Barratt PRE