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MICHAEL BERRY
Lives and works in rye, victoria, australia
 www.michaelberry.com.au
artist contact
 mhberry@gmail.com CArnIVAL OF LAndsCAPe, acryLic on canvas 48x60 in. /122x152 cm.
The universal questions that Michael Berry asks and the pictures he paints no psychological pain. When it comes to art, the integrity of the technical
are the same exploration. His life and his art are linked at the deepest visual language, which is an ongoing, moment-to-moment inquiry for
possible level - they are an inseparable whole. He denies psychological him, is of ultimate importance. The key to Berry’s intriguingly complex
security through images of oneself and others, and in his paintings he and multi-faceted work is that the negative and the positive space are of
avoids the recognisable, including his own fronto signature, that add to equal importance. Berry is a perceptive artist whose only concern is for
and promote the feeling of safety through recognition in the viewer. He the next great breakthrough in painting, and to that end he insists that
maintains that the ‘self’ is subject-bound. Berry speaks often about the each piece speak for itself. He has exhibited widely throughout Australia,
limitations of thought - that it can only measure and compare - and he and his paintings, drawings, and sculptures are in many public, private
maintains that if thought in human beings functions technically, there is and corporate collections.
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