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Michael Skeen is a multi-disciplinary Glasgow-based artist.
His work is concerned with light, line, form, and colour and he explores these with various mediums in a variety of spaces.
His visual vocabulary is informed by abstraction and deconstructed letterforms. He principally makes chemigrams and large-scale paintings.
He has worked at Glasgow School of Art as a workshop assistant in the photography and printmaking departments since 2021, having graduated with a BA in Fine Art Photography that same year.
He is available for commissions and can be contacted by email or via instagram about this. He can also be contacted by email about the possibility of purchasing paintings exhibited on this website.
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EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2025:
August-September
ibug 2025, Chemnitz (Germany). Festival für urbane Kunst & Kultur.
April
Kunst Aktionen 2025, MURALARUM, Munich (Germany). Group Exhibition.
January
‘Urban Coincidence’, Glasgow (Scotland). Group Exhibition.
2024:
September
‘Southend City Jam’, Southend-On-Sea (England). Solo Mural for Street Art Festival.
June
‘Govan Art Open Day’. The Eyrie Studios. Glasgow (Scotland). Open Studio Event.
February
‘Coalesce’ - The Reid Building, Glasgow School of Art (Scotland). Group exhibition.
2023:
October
Barras Mural - Stevenson Street, Glasgow (Scotland). Colourways. Solo commission.
2022:
May-August
‘Street Level Photoworks Open 2022’ - Street Level, Glasgow (Scotland). Group exhibition.
July
‘Storytellers’ - Glue Factory, Glasgow (Scotland). Group Exhibition.
Cass Art Mural - Queen Street, Glasgow. (Scotland) Colourways. Solo commission.
2021:
December 2021-February 2022
‘FUTUREPROOF’ - Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh (Scotland). Group exhibition.
September
‘More Space for the People’ - Saltspace Cooperative Arts Space. Glasgow (Scotland). Group exhibition.
July
‘Alternative Degree Show’ - St Enoch Centre, Glasgow (Scotland). Group Exhibition.
June
‘GSA Showcase 2021: School of Fine Art’ - Glasgow School of Art (Scotland). Degree Show.
Skinny Showcase Review
2020:
‘OFF GRID 1’ - Kingston Bridge, Glasgow (Scotland). Group exhibition.
‘INDENTATIONS’. House for an Art Lover, Glasgow (Scotland).
Group Exhibition.
2018:
‘IMG_001’ - 16 Nicholson Street Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland). Group Exhibition.
PUBLICATIONS
2025:
Untitled Collage Publication (forthcoming). Self-published. Glasgow.
2024:
Abstract Graffiti Magazine. Issue 09. ed. Röd Labyrint Förlag. Sweden.
Abstract Graffiti Magazine. Issue 08. ed. Röd Labyrint Förlag. Sweden.
Tied To Light. Volume 2. ed. Anna Luk and Lucy Kane. London.
2023:
Abstract Graffiti Magazine. Issue 07. ed. Röd Labyrint Förlag. Sweden.
2022:
Abstract Graffiti Magazine. Issue 05. ed. Röd Labyrint Förlag. Sweden.
2019:
Alter Analog. Interviewed by Tania Kaaz. Denver, Colorado.
EMPLOYMENT
2021-Present:
Workshop Assistant at Glasgow School of Art (School of Fine Art) - Photography Department.
2016-2017:
Director of Obscura Darkroom, Blackburn.
EDUCATION
2018-2021:
Fine Art Photography BA. Glasgow School of Art (Scotland).
2017-2018:
Foundation in Art and Design (UAL Accredited). Blackburn College (England).