Michelle McKinney

Michelle Mckinney's art is work of elegant simplicity which, in itself, is the first of many seductions

into an engagement with a complex network of tensions. The work is bedded in the clear space

between opposites; the movement captured in stillness; the fragility and ephemerality of nature

captured in the strength and permanence of industrial, man-made materials; inexorable freedom

within the clinically defined limitations of space. It is the dialogue that takes place between these

polarities that engage so forcefully.

Whilst utilising symbols found in nature that have a timeless constancy, the methods and media used

are innovative applications of contemporary industrial materials subtly handled so that even the

closest scrutiny give almost no intimation of their origins. This play between the timeless and the

immediate is at the heart of Michelle's work. However tranquil the order of the instant may seem it

cannot segregate itself from the underlying chaos of nature and it is into this engagement with the chaos

that we are lured, so unassumingly, by the captivating simplicity of order.

Michelle McKinney  was invited to translate Issey Miyake’s Summer Fragrances into colours. She weaves a delicate, poetic mood around their luminous, fruity freshness. See video below :