Michael Challenger (1939 – )
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I COMMAND YOU TO VANISH 1969 Michael Challenger (1939 – ) P1325 © Michael Challenger
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IN THE ROOM WHERE THE BUTTERLY IS KEPT 1969 Michael Challenger (1939 – ) P1326 © Michael Challenger
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RED SNORT 1972 Michael Challenger (1939 – ) P1700 © Michael Challenger
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No 1920 1970 Michael Challenger (1939 – ) P1701 © Michael Challenger
Michael Challenger is a painter, sculptor and print maker born in Kent in 1939, who moved to London to study at the Goldsmiths’ College of Art and Slade School of Fine Art in the 1960s. He later taught at both institutions.
Challenger is well known for the canvases he produced throughout the 1960s and 70s which are characterized by colourful hallucinatory geometric effects in interior spaces.
He exhibited in the UK, Italy, USA and Germany and his pieces are held by many collections including the V&A and Tate Britain.
Reference Bibliography:
Buckman D., 2006, Artists in Britain since 1945, Vol 1, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol
Glossary
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Sculpture
A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.