Artist in Residence - Artist Talk with Michael Day
Join residency artist Michael Day for a talk about his art practice and his current work in progress
Sat 1 March, 11:00 - 12:00
Sheffield-based artist Michael Day will be resident at Jelly during February. His recent work explores his own autobiography and class background. This body of work has been part of a process of unpacking and reevaluating his early years spent in and around the Dee Road estate in Reading. After feeling like an imposter at the end of his art-based PhD, he began to interpret his class background and the location he grew up in as formative of his experience of feeling out of place in academia and in the art world.
Michael will be sharing examples of his work and will discuss the phases of his practice and how he arrived at his current interest in the Dee Road estate.
Dr. Michael Day is an artist, researcher, lecturer, and occasional curator. He is interested in the ways that external factors can structure individual experience, and produces artworks that explore relationships between technology, class, and agency.
His practice is interdisciplinary and uses a range of media and technologies, including digital media, sound, installation, drawing and print. He has exhibited and screened work in venues across the UK, in Europe, and internationally.
