Michael E Mullen

Address: 6 Carlyle Terrace, Rutherglen, Glasgow, G73 1BE

Phone : 0141 647 9522
e-mail : michael.e.mullen@btopenworld.com

On the most basic level, my work reflects my enduring fascination with painting and drawing. These are activities I have always very much enjoyed, and my fascination with them has developed into an interest in the mechanics of drawing and painting. The formal aspects of the production of a piece are therefore important to me.

On another level my work reflects my fascination with the physical world I inhabit, and my emotional response to it. These two things are perhaps inextricably connected, since the subjects I choose invariably have some symbolic significance, which might either be very personal, or more universally understandable.

There is also a sense in which my work is expressionist, and fulfils a need, in a way that is difficult to adequately explain. On this level my work is more visceral, and my approach more sensual in a way that somehow is in accord with, or reflective of my inner emotional processes.

My work is most successful, I feel, when I can achieve some kind of balance between these elements, when they combine effectively in a painting.

Education
Graduated from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London in June 1988; B. A. Fine Art.
Graduated from St. Andrew’s College of Education, Bearsden in June 1991; P.G.C.E. (Secondary)

Exhibitions
Eastwood Annual Art Exhibition, October 1989.
Glasgow Print Studio: Summer Exhibition and Christmas Exhibition 1990.
Shawlands Academy: Centenary Art Exhibition, 1993.
Spectator Annual Art Competition: exhibition of short listed entries, 1994.
Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow: Summer, Christmas and Eighth Anniversary Exhibitions1997.
Helensburgh Fine Art: “Shades of Summer Exhibition” July 1998, Christmas Exhibition 2001.
The Margin Gallery, Hamilton: Inaugural Exhibition, , Nov1998, Easter, Summer and Christmas exhibitions 1999, Spring and Christmas Exhibitions 2000, Christmas Exhibition 2001. I am still a regular exhibitor with the Margin Gallery.
Beanfeast Charity for Children Exhibition/ Auction at Holyrood House, Edinburgh, June 2002.
Peter Howson and Friends, The Art Lover’s Café, Bellahouston Park Glasgow, October 2002
Scotlandart.com, Giffnock, exhibitor September 2001- August 2004.
Paisley Art Institute 116th Annual Exhibition May 2004.
Paisley Art Institute Scottish Drawing Competition, 2005 .