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Mikey Georgeson (born 1967) is an artist, working in various media. He is a painter and illustrator, who regularly exhibits his work at Sartorial Contemporary Art and other galleries. As "the Vessel", he is songwriter and singer of the cult art-rock band, David Devant and his Spirit Wife. Side projects have included Carfax, a collaboration with Jyoti Mishra, Glam Chops, a glam rock band formed with Eddie Argos of Art Brut, This Happy Band and Mikey Georgeson and the Civilised Scene. Georgeson has also performed and recorded on his own, as Mr Solo. Peter Kimpton, writing in ''The Guardian'' praised Georgeson's "impish genius for melody".〔Peter Kimpton, '(http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/readers-recommend-eccentric-songs-peter-kimpton )', ''The Guardian'', 11 April 2014〕 Ashley Hames, in the Huffington Post, described Georgeson as 'an original British songwriter of lasting quality. He remains a presence somehow transcendent and other-wordly, bringing us songs that seem to have always existed, holding up the mirror to connect us to something we can truly love.'〔(Ashley Hames, 'Moved by Music', The Huffington Post 2 September 2015 )〕 ==Art== After a childhood in Bexhill-on-Sea and Horsham, Mikey Georgeson attended Worthing College of Art (1985–86) and Chelsea School of Art (1986–1989), where he studied illustration when it was a figurative painting course. In 1989, he moved to Brighton, for a postgraduate illustration degree at Brighton University (1989–91).〔(), Artist's biography from the website of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.〕 As an illustrator, he published a series of quirky screenprinted booklets, which he sold in Brighton gallery shops. ''A Shady Tale'' (1993) contained a series of unlikely shadowgraphy images. ''The Hat He Mistook for His Wife'' (1993), reversing the title of Oliver Sacks' famous book, showed a fedora hat in various marital situations – covered with confetti, posing for a honeymoon photograph beside the Eiffel Tower, on a caravanning holiday, and being weighed on bathroom scales. Georgeson lectures in art at the University of East London,〔http://www.uel.ac.uk/adi/staff/mikeygeorgeson/〕 and is a practising painter. He has exhibited his work in the following group exhibitions: 'Wapobaloobop', Transition Gallery London 2008, 'Legends of Circumstance' Whitecross Gallery London 2009, Bargate Gallery Southampton 2010 and the Liverpool Biennial 2010. In London, he has had three solo shows: 'My Magic Life' Sartorial Art 2008, 'Father, Son & Holy Smoke', Bear Gallery 2009, and 'Tragicosmic' at Sartorial Art in 2010〔〔(), Dave Evans MA RCA, Review of Tragicosmic, ArtRabbit.〕 Georgeson describes his paintings, which use thickly applied bright oil colours, as "a distillation of a desire to capture what I consider to be episodic globules in the glistening, sticky fluid called paint."〔 With My Magic Life, his 2008 exhibition inspired by magic and David Devant, he brought the different strands of his work together. Georgeson explained in the exhibition catalogue: In June 2012, Georgeson exhibited a new solo show, 'Trope' at the Royal Standard in Liverpool. According to the gallery website, Georgeson identifies the 'Trope' as 'the crack that opens between the audience (life) and the artist (art). Eleven paintings in the show focus on Georgeson's ongoing love of Liverpool Football Club as a trope through which he can explore 'sending an emissary from his adult rational self to mix with the transcendental awe of his childhood'. He taps into memories of his boyhood bedroom in which his father had created a large scale recreation of the Kop, pasted together with faces cut from the Observer Magazine.' In 2014, Georgeson began a doctorate in fine art at the University of East London. In June 2015, he exhibited his first year paintings in the 'East London Artists' show at the UEL.〔('Art community come to opening night of UEL exhibition', UEL website ).〕 At the opening, he staged a live performance with the accordionist, Martin White, singing the song ('Is David Bowie Happy?' ). Georgeson explained, 'The show explores the idea that David Bowie saved his disciples from anomie (Is there life on Mars?) but potentially at the cost of the individuation of his psyche. In the face of the vacuum of meaning created by post-history culture, rather than resorting to appropriate irony, meaning becomes the mystery of creation itself.'〔('Sit here no ram Files - Is there life on Mars?' video on Youtube )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mikey Georgeson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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