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Michael Forbes
A Synopsis by Jazz singer/Art critic George Melly Michael Forbes is an extremely accomplished painter. So much is clear from even a cursory examination of his work. However its not how well one can paint in the academic sense so much as what one does with this ability. and here it strikes me that Mr Forbes,who was born and brought up in the extreme North of Scotland, has been granted access to a poetic world all the more remarkable given his isolation. It is not a comfortable world. There is a great deal of tension, of alienation, and of menace in the strange events taking place in the landscape of his imagination, Balloons fish, animals sinister personages, dramas and disasters about to happen, and a certain black humor, are his subject matter. His pictures are what the leader of Surrealism, Andre Breton demanded of a work of art, Windows opening to an inner landscape. They are truly impressive. 2002 Commission to paint the band Travis 2000 Commisioned to Paint the poster for the London Underground. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002 Castle Gallery, Inverness 1999 Unicorn Gallery LONDON 1997 Chalk Farm, LONDON 1996 Firth Gallery, EDINBURGH 1995 Gallery 41, EDINBURGH 1993 Gallery 41, EDINBURGH 1991 Flying Colours, INVERNESS 1989 Eden Court, INVERNESS MIXED EXHIBITIONS 2002 Pivotal Gallery, Glasgow 2002 Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly 2002 Glasgow Art Fair 2002 Thompsons Gallery, LONDON 2002 Dublin Art fair, 2001 Glasgow Art Fair 1999 The Affordable Art Fair, LONDON 1999 Lovers and Victims,Beaux Arts, BATH 1998 Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts, BATH 1998 The Glasgow Art Fair, GLASGOW 1997 Sotheby's, LONDON 1997 The Royal Scottish Academy, EDINBURGH 1997 Flying Colours, LONDON 1997 Leith Gallery, EDINBURGH 1997 The Glasgow Art Fair, GLASGOW 1997 The New York Art Fair, NEW YORK 1997 London Art Fair, LONDON 1996 Thomson's Gallery, LONDON 1996 The Royal Scottish Academy, EDINBURGH 1996 The Glasgow Art Fair, GLASGOW 1995 Compass Gallery, GLASGOW 1995 The Beltane Spirit, HIGHLAND COUNCIL 1994 Eton Contemporary Art Gallery 1993 Hilton Hotel, HONG KONG | |||||
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