In this episode I travel to Michael Dells home and studio in Nelson, where he conducts a practice that works with both representation and abstraction.

Micheal holds a Bach of Fine Arts from Ilam at the University of Canterbury. His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, The Suter Gallery Collection, The University of Auckland Art Collection and The Ballin Collection. He has won several art prizes including the Parkin Drawing Prize and is represented in Auckland by Foenander Gallery.

In this episode you’ll hear him talk about the transition from print making and drawing to painting, how those two first disciplines inform his work now, how he’s more concerned with creating an object from a landscape rather than purely representing it, how his preferred support of linen is as much a material for him as paint… and is fear of taking a reference photograph that might be a little too good.

Foenander Gallery Michael Dell Page

Michael Dell Website

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