Michael Gutteridge (painter)
Michael Gutteridge[edit]
Michael Gutteridge is an English painter, best known for his depictions of the urban landscape, particularly of his native city of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
Biography[edit]
Gutteridge was born in Gorton, Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom to a single mother. When he was six years old his mother married and he moved to nearby Stockport, Cheshire, where he attended Peel Moat School in Heaton Moor. He moved back to Gorton, Manchester in his early twenties.[1] He was a self-taught artist who learned his craft by copying famous artworks.[1] [2] He began to get recognition when he was offered an exhibition by Stockport Art Gallery in 2001 after submitting a painting to an open exhibition at the gallery in 2000.[3] More exhibitions followed, including at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, The Portico Library[2][3] and many private galleries in the Manchester area.
Work[edit]
Gutteridge's paintings are usually of urban landscapes, often located in Greater Manchester area, in which buildings and perspectives are greatly distorted,[4] often reminiscent of the style of Chaim Soutine who he has described as an influence.[5] Gutteridge claimed that originally he was "...trying to convey existential unease" but later "...became occupied with sensual vibrancy, excitement, the atmosphere of a place."[4] His work has been described as surrealistic,[2][3][4][6] "a surreal Manchester: swirling with nervous energy..."[4] "...topsy turvy, higgeldy piggeldy, surrealistic dreamscapes,"[6] mixed with allusions to fellow Mancunian urban landscape painter L.S. Lowry whom he also describes as a significant influence.[2][3][5] Often he paints many versions of the same scene.
Between 2006-2010 his work was used by Lancaster University as part of Mediating Marginalities, a transcultural writing project investigating the ways in which the experience of migration has impacted upon contemporary writing in the city of Manchester. He exhibited at events associated with the project and his work appeared on the jacket of the book Post Colonial Manchester, the final encapsulation of the funded reasearch project[7]
In 2010 his painting Peveril of the Peak No. 4. was a finalist from 12,000 entries in the Visual Arts category of the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition.[8]
Solo Exhibitions[edit]
- 2002, January-April - Stockport Metropolitan Borough Art Gallery
- 2004, Spring - The Octagon Theatre, Bolton
- 2005, September - The Portico Library & Gallery, Manchester (Surreal City)
- 2007, January - Blyth Gallery, Manchester (Manchester Vision)
- 2008, May - The Portico Library & Gallery, Manchester (Rhapsody in Red Brick)
- 2008, September - Firbob and Peacock Gallery, Knutsford, Cheshire
- 2010, February - Mooch Gallery, Manchester (All That Jazz)
- 2011, October-December - Duke's Oak Gallery, Cheshire
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gutteridge, Michael. "Zeitgeist Arts Documentary". Vimeo. Channel M/International Media Centre. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mike Sadler (15 Sep 2005). "Surreal City". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Artist's slant on city life". M.E.N. Media. Manchester Evening News. 8 September 2005. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Vigar, Mia (September 2005). "Surreal Tiicket". The Big Issue (45): 18.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Clarke, Amy. "Manchester TV Art's Feature". Vimeo. Manchester TV. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 O'Neil, Patrick (January 2007). "Surreal City". Cheshire Life: 111–113.
- ↑ Pearce, Lynne; Fowler, Corinne; Crawshaw, Robert (2013). Post Colonial Manchester. Manchester University Press. Cover. ISBN 978 0 7190 8815 5. Search this book on
- ↑ "Aesthetica Creative Works Annual 2010". Aesthetica. Creative Works Annual 2010: 69. ISSN 1758-9932.
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