Untitled (Cream)

The artist forced oil painting through cake decorating equipment. No wonder it looks tasty!

Michael choose to make his work foot square, as a reference to Minimalism.  

This work is five layers deep. ‘I’d lay the stretched canvases out in a row and repeat the same patterns of squeezed oil paint across each canvas and while still wet lay one on top of another. They would take a couple of months to dry – it was only the oil paint holding them together to make sculptures.’

Michael makes this work a few months after graduating from Goldsmiths Academy of Arts in London. It’s a reaction to the idea that painting is dead. Painting was out of fashion for a while. With this artwork, Michael wanted to show that you can actually make something with paint. Michael breathes new life into painting.