Mike Barrett
Mike barrett is an artist driven by a joy of making and sharing discoveries, large and small, made through tinkering with processes and materials, day-dreaming about what the world might be. Arguably his practice is an enquiry with the outputs being artefacts and tools of enquiry but not the sole objective of it.
There is a fluidity to his work that comes from intention revealing itself through process. He captures objects and images at the point of transition. Asemic scripts all but express what conventional languages fail to convey. Chance seeps in, even what looks like machine-generated binary code, on close inspection reveals wobbly hand-made features.
The quieter works have auratic aspects that connect you with a sense of a spiritual presence and in others, where storms break the silence, a struggle can clearly be seen and felt. He appears torn between summoning still quiet spaces for the resting of embattled lives and freely channeling the raw experiences of those lives. There are questions he asks us to consider - what is it to be mortal? How do we rest within the fragility of our lives.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mikebarrettworks/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxinante/
website: www.mikebarrettartist.com
email: mikepbarrett@me.com
Mike barrett is an artist driven by a joy of making and sharing discoveries, large and small, made through tinkering with processes and materials, day-dreaming about what the world might be. Arguably his practice is an enquiry with the outputs being artefacts and tools of enquiry but not the sole objective of it.
There is a fluidity to his work that comes from intention revealing itself through process. He captures objects and images at the point of transition. Asemic scripts all but express what conventional languages fail to convey. Chance seeps in, even what looks like machine-generated binary code, on close inspection reveals wobbly hand-made features.
The quieter works have auratic aspects that connect you with a sense of a spiritual presence and in others, where storms break the silence, a struggle can clearly be seen and felt. He appears torn between summoning still quiet spaces for the resting of embattled lives and freely channeling the raw experiences of those lives. There are questions he asks us to consider - what is it to be mortal? How do we rest within the fragility of our lives.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Mikebarrettworks/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxinante/
website: www.mikebarrettartist.com
email: mikepbarrett@me.com
