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MICHAEL BERRY


                     Lives and works in Rye, Victoria, Australia
                                                    w w w.michaelberr y.com.au  3. MIGRATION, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36X47 IN. /92X120 CM.  2. STRANGE DAZE, OIL ON CANVAS 36X47 IN. /92X120 CM.  1. SEA CHANGE, OIL ON CANVAS 36X60 IN./92X152 CM.  3. ‘MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS’, ASSEMBLAGE 36X48X8 IN. /92X122X20 CM.  2. MANIFESTATION, ACRYLIC AND CANVAS RELIEF ON CANVAS 36X48 IN. /92X122 CM.  1. ‘PHENOMENA’-, OIL ON CANVAS 36X60 IN./92X152 CM.





















                                          1. ‘SKIVOO’, OIL ON CANVAS 36X60 IN./92X152 CM.









                                     3. CARNIVAL OF LANDSCAPE, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 47½X60 IN. /122X152 CM.
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        The universal questions that Michael Berry asks and the pictures he paints   the technical visual language, which is an ongoing, moment-to-moment inquiry
        are the same exploration. His life and his art are linked at the deepest possible   for him, is of ultimate importance. The key to Berry’s intriguingly complex and
        level - they are an inseparable whole. He denies psychological security through   multi-faceted work is that the negative and the positive space are of equal
        images of oneself and others, and in his paintings he avoids the recognisable,   importance. He has been criticised for using too much colour, but contends
        including his own fronto signature, that add to and promote the feeling of safety   that the shortcoming is in the mind’s eye of the critic. Berry is a perceptive
        through recognition in the viewer. He maintains that the ‘self’ is subject-bound.   artist whose only concern is for the next great breakthrough in painting, and
        Berry speaks often about the limitations of thought - that it can only measure   to that end he insists that each piece speak for itself. He has exhibited widely
        and compare - and he maintains that if thought in human beings functions   throughout Australia, and his paintings, drawings, and sculptures are in many
        technically, there is no psychological pain. When it comes to art, the integrity of   public, private and corporate collections.
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