Lea Asja
Jacob Cartwright
Jake Clark
Ian Davenport
Sean Dawson
Jack Duplock
Andrew Eden
James Faure Walker
Mark Foulds
Mark Francis
Luke Gottelier
Jennifer Harding
Gerard Hemsworth
Chantal Joffe
Richard Kidd
Simon Linke
Wayne Lloyd Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson
John McLean
Jeff McMillan
Rachael Miles
Jane Millican
Lisa Milroy
Mali Morris
David Rhodes
Geoff Rigden
Danny Rolph
John Russell
Ruth Sumner
Helen Turner
Michael Ward
Gary Wragg
Michael Ward
'Pandemonium'
Oil on canvas
205.5 x 162.5 cm
Michael Ward was born in 1952. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic 1970-71, Ravensbourne College of Art 1974-77 and the Slade School of Fine Art 1977-79. He has exhibited at the Barbican, White Space, Battersea Arts Centre and the Royal Academy in London, at Oriel Cardiff and the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge; and also in Tucson and San Diego, USA.
"For me there are several layers – with glimpses of –
an essential sweetness and succulence contained in nature and being
the chaos and catastrophe lurking in everyday experience
examples of our common follies and frailties
arrogance and aggression as accepted
tyranny teeters towards apocalypse
tyrants and pious pretenders swoop
the last layer is hope.
Within us there is enchantment, wisdom, guile and intelligence…
So while there is life there is hope."
