MICHAEL ARMITAGE

Living and working between London and Nairobi, Armitage paints with oil on Lubugo, a traditional bark cloth from Uganda, which is beaten over a period of days creating a natural material which when stretched taught has occasional holes and coarse indents. As noted by the artist, the use of Lubugo is at once an attempt to locate and destabilise the subject of his paintings.

Michael Armitage was born in 1984 in Nairobi, Kenya and lives and works in London. He received his BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art (2003 – 07) and has a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools (2007 – 10). Group exhibitions include ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow’, Beers Contemporary, London (2014); ‘Tomorrow : London’, South London Gallery (2014) ; ‘Connecting Worlds’, UBM, London (2013); ‘Myth and Market’ (with John Tiney), Studio 1 :1, London (2013) ; ‘Drawing Biennial 2013’, Drawing Room, London (2013) ; ‘RA Schools Show’, Royal Academy Schools Studios, London (2010) ; and ‘Ascension’, Simon Oldfield, London (2008). Current exhibitions include ‘La vie moderne’, the 13th Lyon Biennale curated by Ralph Rugoff, and ‘Painting Is Not Doomed To Repeat Itself’, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York.

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