Lot 26

Estimate $240-300

The gas mask is a recurring theme throughout Michael Camakaris' practice, its potent symbolism gaining ever more weight as we navigate our way through a global pandemic.

Michael Camakaris is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice encompasses drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and ceramics. Instantly recognisable by his distinctive artistic thumbprint, characterised by fine detailing and layered graphical mark-making, he is a skilled draftsman whose compositions are bold and often references art history; drawing from surrealism to dada and abstraction. His work is conceptually driven, commenting on industrialisation and the environment through the depiction of apocalyptic scenes and sensitive renderings of the natural world.

Working in the Arts Project studio since 2010, Camakaris has exhibited widely. He presented his first solo exhibition Five Bulls, No Bull as part of the Shepparton Art Museum Drawing Wall Commission in 2013 and completed an internship at Leonard Joel in 2019. His work is held in in private collections worldwide.
Estimate $240-300

Condition: Backed and wrapped for protection.

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Represented by Arts Project Australia, Melbourne