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Mick Rafferty



Artist Mick RaffertyMy art practice may best described as eclectic. I do not subscribe to the tenet that pursuing just one particular route of development is the only means of endeavour. There exist many commonalities, shared perspectives and adaptable aesthetic and theoretical values applicable to most aspects of art production. I regard it as a challenge to work within a variety of subjects, approaches and media whilst maintaining a consistency and a workable systematic and stylistic formula. Gerhardt Richter wrote that successful production of art is a series of not yets and a yes at the end . A wonderfully simple description of a viable artistic process. Art, a strange term which encompasses so much as to be arbitrary, now has become virtually anything, just so long as any authority declares it to be so. I could argue that the production of a traditional canvas, using paint, making no attempt to shock, outrage or titillate, is the new avant-garde, the next shock. But I won’t. Art in all its various forms has become so diverse, so pluralistic as to be virtually indefinable. Gravitas and Gravity Series Paintings completed within the last three years. All of these paintings are carried out with commercial gloss paints. The consistency and "pourability" of such paint rendered it the only medium suitable for the subject and content of these works. I have found that French paint manufacturers produce the best range of colours, for me at least. Trips across the Channel have a sense of purpose! These pieces explore behaviour and consequence. Paint may be seen as a metaphor for some human traits, be they well mannered, wayward, cooperative, dysfunctional, discordant, harmonious, complementary, aggressive, biddable or demanding. This can be perceived as the message of and within these works, or you can simply enjoy them for the visual and playful surprises and memory jogs that the physical and subliminal content may contain. Mick Rafferty, has exhibited in 25 locations in the UK, half of these One Man Shows, at locations including University of Warwick, Coventry University, Upton House; Poole, Leamington Spa, Earlsdon, Huntingdon, Bristol, Banbury, Hoxton; London and Varenna; Italy Education: 1972 Dip.A.D. Canterbury College of Art: 1990 Post Graduate Certificate of Education: 1998 Masters Degree in Fine Art, Coventry University.
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Magnifying glass 050501
Size Size: 28.00" x 20.00"
Price Price: £250.00
Iris Scandal by
Magnifying glass Iris Scandal
Size Size: 16.50" x 12.00"
Price Price: £45.00
Femme Fatale by
Magnifying glass Femme Fatale
Size Size: 16.50" x 12.00"
Price Price: £45.00
Desperately Seeking Sushi by
Magnifying glass Desperately Seeking Sushi
Size Size: 16.50" x 12.00"
Price Price: £45.00
Full Screen by
Magnifying glass Full Screen
Size Size: 40.00" x 40.00"
Price Price: £550.00
Sunflower Spin:  01 by
Magnifying glass Sunflower Spin: 01
Size Size: 29.00" x 29.00"
Price Price: £425.00
Sunflower Spin: 02 by
Magnifying glass Sunflower Spin: 02
Size Size: 29.00" x 29.00"
Price Price: £425.00
Due To the Printing Process by
Magnifying glass Due To the Printing Process
Size Size: 53.00" x 50.00"
Price Price: £995.00
Gift Wrapped by
Magnifying glass Gift Wrapped
Size Size: 48.00" x 38.00"
Price Price: £800.00
Danna and Geisha, Maiko Watching by
Magnifying glass Danna and Geisha, Maiko Watching
Size Size: 63.00" x 63.00"
Price Price: £1800.00
Pretty in Pink   2008 by
Magnifying glass Pretty in Pink 2008
Size Size: 24.00" x 24.00"
Price Price: £395.00
Sweet Sorbet     2006 by
Magnifying glass Sweet Sorbet 2006
Size Size: 36.00" x 36.00"
Price Price: £475.00
Stitch in Time      2006 by
Magnifying glass Stitch in Time 2006
Size Size: 39.00" x 39.00"
Price Price: £475.00
Creme De Menthe        2005 by
Magnifying glass Creme De Menthe 2005
Size Size: 28.00" x 28.00"
Price Price: £375.00
Tutti Frutti by
Magnifying glass Tutti Frutti
Size Size: 46.00" x 33.00"
Price Price: £575.00
Campaign Ribbons      2008 by
Magnifying glass Campaign Ribbons 2008
Size Size: 16.00" x 16.00"
Price Price: £250.00
West East South North by
Magnifying glass West East South North
Size Size: 50.00" x 40.00"
Price Price: £425.00
Wish You Were Lovely     2005 by
Magnifying glass Wish You Were Lovely 2005
Size Size: 36.00" x 36.00"
Price Price: £550.00
Allsorts      2005 by
Magnifying glass Allsorts 2005
Size Size: 61.00" x 38.00"
Price Price: £575.00
Black On Pewter and Silver by
Magnifying glass Black On Pewter and Silver
Size Size: 10.00" x 10.00"
Price Price: £200.00
Chrome On Black by
Magnifying glass Chrome On Black
Size Size: 12.00" x 12.00"
Price Price: £200.00
Interuption by
Magnifying glass Interuption
Size Size: 28.00" x 28.00"
Price Price: £500.00
Tropic by
Magnifying glass Tropic
Size Size: 36.00" x 36.00"
Price Price: £600.00
Beaucoup De Parfums by
Magnifying glass Beaucoup De Parfums
Size Size: 50.00" x 40.00"
Price Price: £550.00
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