MICHAEL VALE . EXHIBITIONS AT STOCKROOM
Michael Vale is due to curate an exhibition at Stockroom in July 2021.
Stockroom Kyneton, gallerie 2
10 AUGUST/ 08 SEPTEMBER
Feast
ZOË BARRY . WELFE BOWYER . ANDREI DAVIDOFF . LINSEY GOSPER . IRENE WELLM . MICHAEL NEEDHAM . EMME ORBACH . MICHAEL VALE . FELIX WILSON . THE RYAN SISTERS
These three Michael Vale artworks were part of Feast
Feast, a winter culinary event that celebrates dystopian beauty and contemporary horror through food and art. A four-course banquet - inspired by earth, life and death - by award-winning chef Emma James and eleven artists have been commissioned to create an element for this highly ornate and dark sensory experience.
Sculptures, paintings, video and sound work centred around the disturbingly absurd and darkly opulent provided an immersive and extravagant event.
Michael Vale works with painting, installation and video. He has also worked as a TV writer, scenery painter, cartoonist, interior designer1 and art administrator. He is currently employed as a senior lecturer (Painting and Film) at Monash University and has also taught at RMIT and the Hong Kong Art School. He was the inaugural director of Linden Contemporary Art Centre in St Kilda, and also co - renovated the Ghost Train at Luna Park.
Michael believes in the absurdist philosophy that the universe is irrational, and therefore the pursuit of rationality is at odds with the universe. His work is therefore at odds with narrative logic and invites the viewer to visit the zone between inner and outer experience.