
'Corporate Heads' Walmart CEO, 2011.
Oil on Canvas
Mick's research explores the tensions that arise in the world of mass consumerism, sometimes drawing on his own personal experiences in the energy and chemical industries.
His core art practice to date has involved the creation of deliberately ambiguous, yet visually seductive images, from a combination of unlikely materials and more traditional portraits with a hidden message. Mick likes to fuse traditional Fine Art media with the non-traditional.
Working in the mediums of painting, drawing, print, sculpture and performance art , Mick is intrigued by the irrationalities around mass consumerism, which still exist on the Earth today and the ever widening social gaps between the super rich, consumers and producers.
"Art aims at the political as the ultimate means of emancipation, absolute freedom from commodification, if such is still possible".
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