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ARTISTS
STATEMENT
Mike
O'Neill was born in Liverpool, England, on the 7th February 1952,
under the astrological sign of Aquarius, with Cancer rising. He
is essentially an Aquarian artist/creator. Innovative, intuitive
and visionary. An individualist, whose approach to his work ignores
any current trends or styles, only following his distinctive vision.
He
has been a composer of avant-garde electronic music, under the name
Myth Gestalt Musik. Conceiving, directing and collaborating with
dancers, film-makers, other musicians and computer animators to
produce anumber of multi-media events, to accompany his music.
A compilation CD of Myth Gestalt Musik entitled 'Only 2 colours
in 1 silence' is scheduled for release in early 2001. Music Technology
magazine, commenting on some earlier work, called his music "Dark,
Haunting and Majestic". The same could be said in relation
to his paintings!His
paintings have been exhibited at the Souled Gallery in Glastonbury,
Somerset, and at a recent solo exhibition he titled 'The Somnambulists
Menu' at the Lunchclub Cafe/Gallery, Redland, Bristol.There
is a mysterious, ethereal beauty to much of his work, and often
a lyrical, sublime, spiritual quality, as in the painting 'A man
leaves home and with his friends a goose and a white cat, they walk
across the sea' 1997. Other paintings reveal bizarre, nightmarish,
panoramic scenes. Bright white light is often explored within Mike's
paintings and is a reflection of his view that in the not too distant
future, new technologies combined with a deeper spiritual awareness,
will enable human beings to transform and evolve into multi-dimensional,
shape-shifting creatures, who will have little need of a physical
body.Mike
O'Neill works and lives with his friends ......2 white cats!.....at
his home/studio/gallery just south of Bristol.
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