Mike Downing

Mike Downing

Photographic Artist

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Liminal Spaces

February 22, 2013 by mikedowninguk

Co-Production with Adam O’Meara, Ongoing work in progress 2012 – Present. Images produced in response to the Higher Education work/study environment.        

Categories: Projects, Work in Progress • Tags: black and white, collaboration, eduction, film, Project, square, work in progress

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Plastic Vanitas

July 6, 2012 by mikedowninguk

A study after the Dutch masters of still life and the vanitas, entirely in plastic. Where Claesz and his contemporaries set out to highlight the transience of life and futility of object based wealth, this vanitas set entirely in cheap plastic considers objects, which in their organic form would be fleeting – subject to decay and the ravages of time. Their plastic counterparts, however are practically immortal, destined to outlive their owners and manufacturers in landfill. This is a most […]

Categories: Standalones • Tags: still life, studio, vanitas, work in progress

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