Michelle McKinney

Current Collection

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 :

 

 

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1998 - Silversmithing & Jewellery Design. 1st class hons.  University of Central England.

 

2016

Oct - AAF Battersea, Northcote Gallery

2014

Oct - AAF Battersea, Northcote Gallery

2013

Dec - Solo Exhibition 'Nature studies' Northcote Gallery Chelsea

Oct - AAF, Stockholm

Oct - Saatchi Gallery London, Starta Art Fair,  Northcote Gallery

April - AAF, New York  

May - Over the sea to the sky. Group exhibition. Byard Arts, Cambridge 

2012

Dec - Solo Exhibition “Catching Shadows” Northcote Gallery

Oct - AAF London. Northcote Gallery

 

2011

Nov - Solo Exhibition, 'The Consent'  Northcote Gallery, Chelsea

Oct - All Gold’s Exhibition ,The Birmingham school of jewellery BIAD 

Oct - Art London – Northcote Gallery 

Oct - AAF Battersea – Northcote Gallery 

June - Art Hamptons, U.S.A - Northcote Gallery 

 

2010

Nov - AAF London, Northcote Gallery 

Oct - Art London, Northcote Gallery 

March Park Life – The Craft Centre and Design Gallery Leeds 

Dec/Jan - Small is Beautiful - Corman Arts London 

 

2009

Oct - Origin, Somerset House 

May - Dulwich Arts Festival  

 

2008

Jan - Material Worlds, Vital Arts Gallery, Main Corridor Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel 

April/June - Flora and Fauna, Leeds City Gallery 

 

2007

Sept - 100% Design, Earls Court London