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Mik Godley's reviews
Art Education
Public Debate: The Future of Art Education Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Monday 6 October 2008, 6.30pm A debate about the future of art education is raging on the pages of Art Monthly. In October r...
Replied 28 Jul
Art Education
Art education - especially in the UK - is a tough one - I certainly wouldn't rush to any conclusions. To be honest, pretty much by accident, I've ended up being in art education nearly all my adul...
Replied 24 Mar
Mik Godley's Profile - "Considering Silesia"
Profile Information
- Relationship status
- single
- College / University
- Leeds Polytechnic; Nottingham Trent University, School of Art & Design
- Program
- BA (Hons) Fine Art; MA Creative Collaborations (Distinction)
- Graduation
- 15 December 2006
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Painting
- I am...
- A painter and art-school lecturer
- About my artwork
- The Über-project "Considering Silesia" seeks to examine issues of mixed heritage (where this may contain conflict), cultural memory and identity and the subject of displacement and migration. These themes are specifically observed in the contemporary context of our evolving relationship with the internet and new media (our digital “way of seeing”) focusing on 'virtual expeditions' to my mothers' homeland (Lower Silesia) and the analogue activity of painting.
My work can be seen on
My Research Page (a messy, unresolved, playing about with ideas kind of thing...) can be seen at: -
http://goldfactory.ning.com/profile/MikGodley
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- Artists I like
- Masses - from cave painters onwards
- Interests
- Painting - then most visual arts, good food, my kids, galleries and museums, art education, exhibition previews, chatting to friends in my local pub - usually about art(s), politics, art education and our struggles therein.
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- Chuck Close photo-embroidery at White Cube, Masons Yard, London - my favourite of recent months.
(Actually this was quite some time ago now, but I haven't seen anything to match this show since - much as I'd like to - it was genuinely one of those shows that stopped me in my tracks - they don't happen very often - although, to be fair, I didn't think much of his paintings, which was a surprise to me - I thought they were rather thin and rushed - they gave the impression of being churned-out rather than considered - not what I expected from Mr. Close, though I'd only seen his work in reproduction before, but there you go, you can't have everything, though I respect his work tremendously, yours "disappointed, if only a little bit, of Nottingham, UK" - such is life)
Aha! Finally - a new gob-smacker! Check out Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
I'm told the show will be travelling to Oxford, England.
My favourite installations in the show were Opera for a Small Room and The Killing Machine
Martin Creed at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK is fun.
Andy Warhols film portraits "The Eternal Now" at Ikon Eastside is also good - but is the Ikon Birmingham's only contemporary gallery?
- The centre of the artworld is
- nowhere and everywhere
"Considering Silesia" chaaantelka(randki.o2.pl/profil.php?id) #1
Mik Godley's Blog
"Planchette" published in /seconds 9 magazine
/seconds 9 to be launched at E:vent, The Wharf Road Project, London, UK - 16/10/08 You can view "Planchette" online (video and text) here Our piece "Der Korridor Geist" is about halfway in to the video. For details see blog post Planchette in "No Letters" Nettie Horn Gallery, Vyner Street, London… Continue
Posted on 11th October 2008 at 1:08pm —
New Art-Fair at Urbis Centre, Manchester UK, with Bend In The River
Posted on 4th October 2008 at 1:19am — 3 Comments
Recent Exhibitions, etc.
Solo
2007 “Greetings from Silesia”, Bend in the River Gallery, Gainsborough
Group
2008 "No Letters", Nettie Horn Gallery, Vyner Street, London, curated by Leigh Clarke, including Ian Breakwell, Leigh Clarke, Lucy Harrison, Dick Jewell, Conor Kelley, Bob & Roberta Smith, Peter Suchin with Vic Browne, Mik Godley (collaborating with Graham Lester George), Matt Hale, Lee Holden, Lizzie Hughes, Liane Lang, Stephen… Continue
Posted on 26th August 2008 at 12:25pm —
Planchette in "No Letters" Nettie Horn Gallery, Vyner Street, London
NO LETTERS
21 MARCH – 21 APRIL
Private view: Thursday 20 March, 6-9pm
IAN BREAKWELL | LEIGH CLARKE | LUCY HARRISON | DICK JEWELL | CONOR KELLY | BOB & ROBERTA SMITH | PETER SUCHIN (with Mik Godley)
No Letters investigates the dissemination of public information through various forms of reportage, carried out on both a local and a global level. Each contributing artist has made work that seeks to debunk the way we receive news of curren… Continue
Posted on 5th March 2008 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments
Excerpts from critical reviews for "Considering Silesia"
Enigmatic landscapes charged with psychological resonance…. An impressive combination of methodical observation and technical draughtsmanship matched by a mature understanding of the medium and just the right amount of spontaneity and freedom give these studies a real sense of urgency, energy and vitality.
Matt Price, freelance critic (Flash Art, Art Review), saatchi.gallery.co.uk
February 7, 2007
Review of “Parade: Terra Incognita”, Angel Row Gallery
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Posted on 20th February 2008 at 12:13pm —
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Nick T.
Nottingham eh? Just up the road, ish..
I'm tramping up to Scunthorpe tomorrow to chuck some of those paintings at the people from 20-21..oh joy...
that is quite a compliment. I'll meet you half way - it's hangs together well but it is very minimal for figurative work.
Quick note!!!! In retrospect both you and Michael Bowdidge were both correct. The Banzini piece (yellow/assembled parts/clutter) got the same feedback from my peers at our show: 'lots of energy but much clutter'. You were also right that about work on paper - I sold over 6 works on paper and made over a month rent on them!!!! My father was very keen about your comments last month as you work as a professional art teacher.
So I have split the two. More work on paper and a move to more minimal expressive pieces on canvas - let the subject appear naturally rather than too much overworking. I did sell two canvases at our show. I still paint on the floor of which am proud. Also getting into carving wood.
Big thanks from Luke
Ditto the Bladerunner - been a while since I saw that too... Nice of you to drop by for an earful :) Some new stuff in the pipeline, one track which is kind of a krautrock/music concrete hybrid, and another one which is more straight forward electronica, though God only knows when I'll actually have time to get them finished, as they are a lot more 'constructed' than most of the XP stuff, so they take a lot longer to do...
Take care old bean, have fun tomorrow!
haypaintings while the sun shines", but mind you don't leave it so long that they lose it again. Say 'hi' to Irene for me...Open to all artists in all fine arts media we seek to recognize outstanding quality and diversity in the arts.
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