Mychael Barratt

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Mychael Barratt
Mychael Barratt is a painter, printmaker and cartographer whose detailed work is often as narrative as it is visual. He studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and printmaking at Central St Martins College of Art. He was the President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and was the commissioned artist for the Globe Theatre throughout Mark Rylance's reign as Artistic Director. 

 

Barratt has works in various public collections including the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum, the Aberystwyth University School of Art Collection, the British Library's permanent collection of maps, and Her Majesty The Queen's private collection. His book Intaglio Printmaking was published by A & C Black and Unicorn Press published The Master's Muse: Artists' Cats and Dogs in 2015 and London Map of Days in 2017. In 2011 he was commissioned by the law firm TV Edwards to paint an 8 x 10 metre mural on the wall of their Georgian building on the Mile End Road, London E1 along the route of the 2012 Olympic

Education:

1980-82                  Symposium School of Art, Winnipeg, Canada

1982-84                  Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada

1989-90                  Central St. Martin's School of Art, London, UK

 

Associations: 

Elected Member of The Federation of Canadian Artists, (FCA), 1998

Elected Member of The Royal Society of Painter/Printmakers, 1999

Made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Painter/Printmakers, (RE), 2002

Elected President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, (PRE) 2013

 

Selected Exhibitions: 

Over 50 solo shows including most recently:                                   

2016                      Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge, UK                 

2016                      Pyramid Gallery, York, UK                                                         

2017                      Castle Gallery, Inverness                                                           

2017                      Eames Fine Art, London                                                           

2017                      Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford                                                

2020                      Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford                                                

2020                      Eames Fine Art, Mychael Barratt and William Hogarth              

                                     

Bibliography

London Map of Days by Mychael Barratt published by Unicorn Press, London 2017

The Master's Muse: Artists' cats and dogs by Mychael Barratt published by Unicorn Press, London, 2015

Intaglio Printmaking: A guide to traditional printmaking techniques, by Mychael Barratt published by A & C Black, 2008

 

Awards 

2006                 Peter Blake Award, Originals '06, The National Print Exhibition

2006                  Ashmolean Museum Prize, work purchased for collection

2010                  Paintings in Hospitals prize, RE Annual Exhibition

2011                  Paintings in Hospitals prize, RE Annual Exhibition

2016                  Tessa Sidney Prize by Aberystwyth University

 

Collections 

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The British Library, Map Collection, London

International Dispute Resolution Centre, Fleet Street, London

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Jiangsu Museum of Contemporary Art, China

Yinchuan Museum, China

Canadian High Commission, Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London SW1Y 5BJ

British Museum Print Collection, London

Royal Collection, Her Majesty The Queen, Windsor

National Gallery, Beijing

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