Mik Godley
Selected Critical Reviews
Enigmatic landscapes charged with psychological resonance…. An impressive combination of methodical observation and technical draughtsmanship matched by a mature understanding of the medium and just the right amount of spontaneity and freedom give these studies a real sense of urgency, energy and vitality.
Matt Price, critic (Flash Art, Art Review), saatchi.gallery.co.uk
February 7, 2007
Review of “Parade: Terra Incognita”, Angel Row Gallery
The building up of the image through thousands of small squares and dashes of acrylic paint gives these works a vibrancy of surface that is both intriguing and unnerving. There is a ghostliness about these paintings that both attracts and yet is candidly uncanny, cold and crisp like a detail in a story by M R James, apparently trivial but in fact exactly to the point.
Peter Suchin, critic (Art Review, Frieze, Art Monthly)
Untitled, June 2007
Review of “Greetings from Silesia”, Bend in the River
Mik Godley suggest[s] that pixelation is the pointillism of the twenty-first century. … Today's most famous photographic pixelator, Thomas Ruff, similarly attempts to touch the mysterious in his porn photos (though with more cynical subject matter), but to really make the leap into the uncanny you have to change medium as well. Godley's seductive and slightly sickly painting Ana takes us into this uncomfortable realm.
James Westcott, artreview.com, February 2008
Enigmatic landscapes charged with psychological resonance…. An impressive combination of methodical observation and technical draughtsmanship matched by a mature understanding of the medium and just the right amount of spontaneity and freedom give these studies a real sense of urgency, energy and vitality.
Matt Price, critic (Flash Art, Art Review), saatchi.gallery.co.uk
February 7, 2007
Review of “Parade: Terra Incognita”, Angel Row Gallery
The building up of the image through thousands of small squares and dashes of acrylic paint gives these works a vibrancy of surface that is both intriguing and unnerving. There is a ghostliness about these paintings that both attracts and yet is candidly uncanny, cold and crisp like a detail in a story by M R James, apparently trivial but in fact exactly to the point.
Peter Suchin, critic (Art Review, Frieze, Art Monthly)
Untitled, June 2007
Review of “Greetings from Silesia”, Bend in the River
Mik Godley suggest[s] that pixelation is the pointillism of the twenty-first century. … Today's most famous photographic pixelator, Thomas Ruff, similarly attempts to touch the mysterious in his porn photos (though with more cynical subject matter), but to really make the leap into the uncanny you have to change medium as well. Godley's seductive and slightly sickly painting Ana takes us into this uncomfortable realm.
James Westcott, artreview.com, February 2008
Specialties
Painting - whatever that means!
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Experience
Owner
Mik's Front Room
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry
November 2010 – Present (2 years 3 months) Nottingham, United Kingdom
'Mik's Front Room' is a contemporary visual art initiative begun by Mik Godley, recently launching "off-site" with the city centre 'pop-up' exhibition "2010: the year we made contact" in partnership with Nottingham Studios Ltd. 'Mik's Front Room' is a vehicle through which to create "things" neither strictly within my own practice, nor in any particularly established format - and to work with other artists. I hope it will be a playful experiment, in the spirit of 'let's see what happens if...' - perhaps like a blog that exists sometimes virtually, sometimes physically.
Director
Primary (the trading name of Nottingham Studios Ltd)
2003 – Present (10 years) Nottingham, United Kingdom
Building a unique creative facility for artists, the public, and local and international communities.
Primary is the first dedicated, permanent artist studios in Nottingham, supporting the development and production of contemporary visual art in the city. Its mission is to operate high quality, secure and affordable studios with associated exhibition and events space, which will support artists and provide an integral public interface.
Primary is the first dedicated, permanent artist studios in Nottingham, supporting the development and production of contemporary visual art in the city. Its mission is to operate high quality, secure and affordable studios with associated exhibition and events space, which will support artists and provide an integral public interface.
Lecturer Fine Art
Chesterfield College
Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry
January 1990 – Present (23 years 1 month)
Teaching Fine Art, Life-drawing & Painting: -
Foundation (18+) & Gateway diagnostic pre-degree students - visual, media & manual skills
Foundation (18+) & Gateway diagnostic pre-degree students - visual, media & manual skills
Painter and iPad artist
Mik Godley
1982 – Present (31 years) Nottingham, United Kingdom
I am a painter and iPad artist.
I’m interested in digital and internet explorations from pixel to painting and back again, and my project “Considering Silesia” examines issues of conflicting (Anglo-German) heritages, cultural memory, identity, displacement and migration.
These themes are observed in the context of our evolving relationship with the internet and new media – our digital “way of seeing” – focusing on ‘virtual expeditions’ to my mothers’ homeland (Lower Silesia – a place I’ve never been to) and the very ‘analogue’ activity of painting.
Developed since 2003 "Considering Silesia" has been exhibited from Baltimore to Zagreb, featured in several publications, received awards and critical acclaim.
Recent exhibitions include Autodesk Gallery San Francisco, a solo show for the Edinburgh Art Festival at TotalKunst, London Art Fairs with BendInTheRiver and Own Art, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, Nottingham Contemporary, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
For examples of iPad drawing "play-back" videos please see my YouTube channel at: - http://www.youtube.com/user/ConsideringSilesia
I’m interested in digital and internet explorations from pixel to painting and back again, and my project “Considering Silesia” examines issues of conflicting (Anglo-German) heritages, cultural memory, identity, displacement and migration.
These themes are observed in the context of our evolving relationship with the internet and new media – our digital “way of seeing” – focusing on ‘virtual expeditions’ to my mothers’ homeland (Lower Silesia – a place I’ve never been to) and the very ‘analogue’ activity of painting.
Developed since 2003 "Considering Silesia" has been exhibited from Baltimore to Zagreb, featured in several publications, received awards and critical acclaim.
Recent exhibitions include Autodesk Gallery San Francisco, a solo show for the Edinburgh Art Festival at TotalKunst, London Art Fairs with BendInTheRiver and Own Art, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, Nottingham Contemporary, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
For examples of iPad drawing "play-back" videos please see my YouTube channel at: - http://www.youtube.com/user/ConsideringSilesia
Director
Nottingham Studios Ltd
2003 – 2010 (7 years)
A lot
artist
Mik Godley
1982 – 2010 (28 years)
I paint pictures
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