Michael Gellatly

It's not essential to my practice to work with the agency of stability, but rather to employ the tools of uncertainty. This is where the subject/object sidesteps the knowable. My work has always been about image making, fueled by a restless exploratory energy and juxtaposition/hybriding. The architecture of my imagery is erected through process, material and method, and from a dire need to touch, For me, to draw is to touch. Where painting feeds painting, drawing feeds imagery, relentlessly, vigorously, inexhaustibly reconfiguring. Always offering. Whatever the skin draping this architecture, it's rationally rendered and wholly invented - one foot rooted in nostalgia for an iconic mythological past, the other in a keen awareness of the contemporary, a third in the arena of play. Another act within my process is the repurposing of imagery, images once having presence and purpose, yet rarely seen, now layered into the fabric of my present. All of it, in a timeless manner, becomes urgent to me.

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