“Every time I lift a paintbrush I feel a continuum with every painter, past present and future. For me, paintings are always alive, offering us glimpses into parallel universes. In this context, making my work seems like time travel, a passport to the vast variety of planets that make up the galaxy of painting. Here time is elastic, interchangeable and, ultimately, a mirage!” – Michael Vale, January 2019
“Channelling the epic landscapes of Salvator Rosa and Gustave Doré, Michael Vale’s works suggest a satiric netherworld that oscillates between the ludicrous and the sinister. Fictitious tableaux are populated with absurd and clown-like figures performing meaningless actions against a backdrop of sublime landscapes, gathering clouds and encroaching darkness. Terrifying, comical and threatening, confusion reigns and serves to invoke a heightened state of unease”.
– Jessica Bridgfoot, Bendigo Art Gallery
Michael Vale is a Melbourne-based painter and film maker and winner of the 2018 Hutchins Prize. His work gravitates towards the gothic and the absurd. He is a senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art at Monash University.
Exhibition…..
#1 MICHAEL VALE Iceland Gothick, 2018, oil on linen, 122 x 97 cm $8,950.00
#2 MICHAEL VALE (Time passes slowly) Up here in the mountains, 2018, oil on linen, 122 x 97 cm $8,950.00
#3 MICHAEL VALE The Transit of Mercury, 2018, oil on linen, 152 x 122cm $12,000.00
#4 MICHAEL VALE Post Truth, 2017, oil on linen, 122 x 97 cm $8,950.00
#5 MICHAEL VALE Smoking Ghost 2016-19 oil on linen 51 x 36 cm $2,850.00
#6 MICHAEL VALE Interdimensional Detectives, 2015, oil on linen, 122 x 92 cm
SOLD
#7 MICHAEL VALE The package, 2018, oil on linen, 122 x 92 cm $8,950.00
#8 MICHAEL VALE
Time Traveller Suite I 2016
oil on board
50 x 40 cm
signed verso
$2,500.00
#9 Michael Vale 2016
Time Traveller Suite II
oil on wood 50 x 40 cm
$2,500.00
#10 MICHAEL VALE
Umbelliferous Portrait I, 2015
Oil on board
61 x 47 cm
$3,500.00
#11 MICHAEL VALE
Umbelliferous Portrait II 2015
Oil on board
61 x 46 cm
$3500
#13 MICHAEL VALE Multilingual 2018 oil on linen 138 x 194 cm dyptich $15,000.00
#12 MICHAEL VALE Scientist in a Tweed Suit 2015 51 x 41 cm $2,850.00
#14 MICHAEL VALE Is There Life On Pluto 2016 oil on linen 152 x 122 cm $13,750.00
#15 MICHAEL VALE The phantom engineer 2016, oil on linen, 122 x 91.5 cm $8,950.00
#16 MICHAEL VALE The phantom Oculist 2018, oil on linen 122 x 91.5 cm $8,950.00
#17 MICHAEL VALE Voodoo Suite 1 2019 Oil on linen 76.5 x 51cm SOLD
#18 MICHAEL VALE Voodoo Suite 2 2019 Oil on linen 76.5 x 51cm $4,150.00
#19 MICHAEL VALE Voodoo Suite 3 2019 Oil on linen 76.5 x 51cm SOLD
#20 MICHAEL VALE Voodoo Suite 4 2019 Oil on linen 76.5 x 51cm SOLD
#21 MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller Suite III 2018 Oil on board 50 x 40 cm $2,850.00
#22 MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller Suite IV 2018 Oil on board 50 x 40 cm $2,850.00
#23 MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller Suite V 2019 Oil on board 40.5 x 30.5 cm $2,200.00
#24 MICHAEL VALE Umbelliferous Portrait III 2015 Oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm $3,500.00
#25 MICHAEL VALE Little Voodoo Portrait, 2019, Oil on board 40.5 x 310cm $2,200.00
#26 MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller #1, 2018, oil on linen, 76 x 66 cm $3,950.00
#27 MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller #2, 2018, oil on linen 71 x 61 cm $3,950.00
#28 MICHAEL VALE Mercury Portrait 2016 oil on linen 51 x 41 cm $2,850.00
Gallery views….
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views - Voodoo Suite 1 + 2
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views
MICHAEL VALE Time Traveller 2019 - gallery views - Foyer
