Gallery Archives
October 15 to November 19, 2005
Recent Works by Michael Poulton
"Vicinity of New Orleans" - Michael Poulton 2005
World of Wonders
This exhibition of new paintings and collage by artist Michael Poulton takes the idea of Wonderland as both a concept and a theme. In Lewis Carrol’s story, Alice pops down a rabit hole and emerges in a world similar but different, a world where the laws of myth and magic rule supreme. What Carrol had used was actually a classic and recuring motif in mythology by which the hero or heroine find themselves in a world turned upside down and all the rules are all different.
Biography
Educated in England at the Camberwell School of Art and the Epsom and Ewell School of Art, multi-media artist Michael Poulton has had 13 solo exhibitions and over 80 group shows in North America and Europe. His collages and copper work have both been reproduced in The Sciences., the Journal of the New York Academy of Science as well as other books and magazines. In addition he has collaborated on large scale architectural glass and public art projects both in Canada and the United Kingdom. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council, the American NICHE Award and 10 design awards from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. His dry-point prints have also won national awards. He has written on issues of art and aesthetics and lectured on drawing at Nipissing University. In 1986 he co-founded The Museum of Temporary Art, a not for profit artist run centre, which hosts artistic events in an unusual setting. He is currently co-chair of Artspace, the artsit-run-centre in Peterborough. His interests include exotic landscapes, science, philosophy and antiquarian books and manuscripts.