I studied painting and printmaking in Birmingham Poly between 1990 and 1993.
This was quite a traditional art education.

For the last 13 years I have worked with marginalized young people both in London and Swansea.
During this time I studied an MA in the History of Art at Goldsmiths College and
a Foundation in Existential Psychotherapy. I want to continue my studies in psychotherapy.

As a child I was curious about the Holocaust and quizzing my mother about
what had happened to the Jews in the war.
In 1996 I travelled to Poland and visited Auschwitz. From that experience I began to make paintings.
On my MA I built upon these paintings, experiences and thoughts through writing and creating art.
I exhibited some of these painting in a solo show in Wales in 2000 and built my MA dissertation
and essays around the subject. Through my studies I came to realise that gay men had also been
sent to the concentration camps. I have attempted to paint my feelings on the treatment of gay men
in the Holocaust and how this relates to gay men today.

But how do you represent that which cannot be represented? How do you make the invisible, visible?

See Mike at Venue 14 - Artshul