Michael Organ

About Michael Organ

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Michael Organ was born into a mining family in Penmaen, Gwent in 1939.  He worked in the county all his life except for two years National Service with the RAF in Germany.  He studied at Caerleon Training College, Cardiff College of Art and the University of Wales.  The accumulated experience of a career in art education for over thirty five years undoubtedly informed his work as an artist.

 

The artist exhibited since 1963.  His work was an on-going attempt to find tangible equivalents which define sensations of reality and personal solutions to the situation of art of the time.  

 

The main themes of his work evolve from an integration of disparate elements: memories, literature, mass media, the natural environment, cultural sign offerings and not least, art, craft and design history.  He had no qualms about re-rendering styles or adopting techniques from historical sources or other cultures.  Intuition and spontaneity are vital and at the heart of the work.  Various configurations are employed to fix a relationship between ideas and formal values.  The end results were sometimes be agreeably ambiguous and unpredictable but remain open to a free interpretation by the spectator.

 

A long term member of the Welsh Group of artists and honorary member of South Wales Potters, he  exhibited widely throughout the UK and abroad.  He is represented in public and private collections.

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Michael died in 2021.