Gallery Curator
Position
- Reader in Visual Arts
- Curator of London Gallery West and Ambika P3
Biography
Michael is the Curator of London Gallery West and Ambika P3. He studied Photography at Nottingham Trent University and Film at the Royal College of Art. Before joining the University, he was a research fellow at the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection at the University of the Arts, London. Previously he was Director of the Lux Centre, London Electronic Arts and Pandaemonium - London’s Festival of Moving Images. He also worked at the London Film-makers Co-operative as cinema programmer and editor of Undercut film and video magazine.
He is a practicing artist and his films are exhibited internationally in galleries, museums and festivals and he has shown work at the Tate, London and MOMA, New York. His films are in the collections of the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of Japan, the National Collection of Australia and held at the National Film Archive in London. He has completed an anthology of writing on artists’ film and video for Wallflower Press and his latest work ‘Actor’ continues his exploration on the seductive nature of cinema by reworking archival film extracts.