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Dr Michael Pinsky, who was born in Scotland and lives and works in London, graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Fine Art in 1995. His fluid explorations of humanity's' connection to nature and the issues which shape our use of the public realm have resulted in challenging and innovative work which has been exhibited internationally. His 2005 work 'Weather Cluster', a digital chandelier of thirty flat screen monitors, responded to our planet's increasingly unpleasant and unpredictable climate. Students at the school, where the Cluster (cloud) is sited, collect and add video clips of weather from around the world. At any one moment the clips shown on the monitors reflect the current conditions at a local weather station. For 'Horror Vacui' in 2007 a 50m2 jigsaw of architectural tile motifs was completed by 100 individuals who travelled from all over the globe to the Portuguese city of Torres Verdas bearing their pieces of the puzzle. The green pharmacy crosses of 'L'Appât' testify to the importance of religious heritage in the sleepy French village of Le-Mas d'azil. (see image) The apparent simplicity of these projects belies Pinsky's more complex investigation, during the commissioning process, of the relationship between artistic intention and the local audience's appreciation of context. Playing with symbols, objects and actions Pinsky allows the ambiguities and tensions in the work to surface and bubble forming an imaginative re-invention of visual traditions. In addition to numerous public art projects Pinsky has exhibited extensively in galleries and festivals such as TATE Britain, the Saatchi Gallery, the ICA London, BALTIC Gateshead, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Modern Art Oxford, John Hansard Gallery Southampton, Milton Keynes Gallery, Cornerhouse Manchester, Liverpool Biennial, Archilab Orleans, CCC Tours France, Armory Center of the Arts Los Angeles, and the Rotterdam International Architectural Biennial. For Art and Sacred Places Michael Pinsky has been commissioned by Bristol City Council to make a permanent work for St Bernadette's Catholic Secondary School as part of Building Schools for the Future.
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