Michael Gorman (1938-2022)
In a career spanning six decades, Michael Gorman has work in several international collections (Prince Meurat Collection, Paris; Heineken Collection, Netherlands; Nuremburg Museum, Germany; Royal Albert Museum, Exeter; Leicester City Museum) and has exhibited widely (John Moores, Liverpool; The Serpentine Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Grand Palais, Paris; Katzen Gallery, New York).
A key figure in the burgeoning Photorealist movement of the late 1960s, he continues to create arresting visual images which delight and provoke in equal measure. Working in a figurative, photorealist idiom, with an immediately identifiable style, his subject matter is both aesthetic and political.
His paintings deliver a sensual, joyous response to the stunning Mediterranean coast, the human form or to Classical architecture. But equally, Michael Gorman’s work explores a profound fascination with shifting cultural boundaries and the clash of old/new, ancient/modern, traditional/contemporary.
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Biography
Selected One Man Exhibitions
2006
Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia
2000
Artifex Gallery, Birmingham
1997
The Bruton Street Gallery, London
1995
The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, London
1991
Marcus & Marcus Gallery, Amsterdam
1977
Basel Art Fair, Nicholas Treadwell Gallery
1972
The Serpentine Gallery, London
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Selected Group Exhibitions
1999
W.H. Patterson, London
1998
Park View Fine Paintings, Bristol
Meridian Art, London
1997
The Body Politic, Wolverhampton & Derby Art Galleries
1994
The Bruton Street Gallery, London
1991 – 1992
Gallery Goetz, Basel
1989
Marcus & Marcus Gallery, Amsterdam
1982
Steltman Gallery, Amsterdam
Katzen Gallery, New York
1981
Villa Bohm, Neustadt, Germany
Touring Exhibition of Scotland – Aberdeen Museum, Universities of Stirling, Strathclyde, St. Andrews
1980
Women 1980, Munich
1979
Grand Palais, Paris – Grandes et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui
1977
Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris – Mythologies Quotidiennes
Gallery Naviglio, Milan – Italy and the Italians
1976
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Staat Museum, Vienna – British Realists
A two year touring show of Canada
Aspects of Reality, International Survey of Current Realism
1974
John Moores – Liverpool
1974
Gallery Moos, Toronto – Aspects of Reality
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Bibliography
1999
Artists’ and Illustrators’ Newsletter
Article on the use of acrylic paint in the artist’s work
1998
Artists’ and Illustrators’ Newsletter
Majesty or Travesty
1983
German National television film
Five Artists
1980
Nicholas Treadwell publications
Superhumanism 1 & 2
1979
Super Realism – Edward Lucie-Smith
1976
Aspects of Reality – catalogue raisonné
1974
Art & Artists – From the Real World: William Packer on Michael Gorman
Arts Review – Look and See: monograph by Eddie Wolfram
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Work in Collections
Prince Meurat Collection, Paris
Heineken Collection, Netherlands
Nuremburg Museum, Germany
Royal Albert Museum, Exeter
Leicester City Museum
Commissions include
Miss Pears 1977 for Pears soap
George Rowney: Cryla paint
Brights of Nettlebed
Erotic Verse: book cover for Picador Press
Swedish Chemical
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1938
Born Wolverhampton, England
1965 – 1969
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne University
1969 – 1988
Principal Lecturer in Fine Art, Exeter College of Art and Design
1988 – 1993
Moved to second studio and residence in Umbria, Italy
1993 – 2004
Moved to studio and residence on Dartmoor
2004
Moved to studio and residence in Cyprus
2022
Died 10-01-2022, Pafos, Cyprus
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