Artworks

Mychael Barratt PPRE (elected ARE 1999, RE 2002)

Wes Anderson’s Dog - Fitzrovia

screenprint, edition of 100

image size 27 x 16.5 cm

paper size 39 x 29 cm

£160 unframed

purchase here 

Mychael Barratt is fascinated virtually to the point of obsession in the art of other artists. His homages to them are respectful and clever and use techniques appropriate to their styles. With his homages to the film director Wes Anderson, he celebrates the artist’s recognisable visual style – hoping to look like they could be stills form his films. Wes Anderson’s Dog – Fitzrovia, is a 7 colour screenprint and the commissioned shape of the PCC print leant itself to a depiction of London including the iconic Post Office Tower. The dog is a friend’s called Dusty.

Mychael Barratt was born in Toronto, Canada, however, considers himself to be a Londoner since arriving for what was supposed to be a two-week stay thirty years ago. He is a narrative artist and cartographer whose career making original prints covers virtually every possible technique. During his term as President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, he curated many international exhibitions and was responsible for launching two annual open submission print exhibitions held at Bankside Gallery - the National Original Print Exhibition and The Masters.

Mychael was an artist in residence for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre throughout Mark Rylance’s reign as Artistic Director as well as being a commissioned artist for Liberty of London. In 2011, just prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was commissioned by T. V. Edwards to paint a 10x8m mural on an external wall of their headquarters on the Mile End Road. He painted a vista depicting important buildings from the Mile End and Whitechapel Roads and peopled the scene with famous and notable historical figures that have some connection with the area. The building has since been converted from offices to residential and is now called Mural House.