michaelsole@hotmail.co.uk
+44(0)7581438866
+33(0)644333403
currently exhibiting:
William Pelly Gallery, Dorset www.williampellygallery.com
The Pierpoint Gallery, Dorset www.pierrepointgallery.co.uk
Sea Pictures Gallery, Suffolk www.seapicturesgallery.com
GX Gallery, London www.gxgallery.com
The TAOI Gallery, Southampton http://taoigallery.squarespace.com/
The Great Atlantic Gallery, Cornwall www.greatatlantic.co.uk
Outside The Square Gallery, Margate www.outsidethesquaregallery.com
CV
D.O.B 12/05/85
EDUCATION
2005 – 2008 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2004 Foundation in Art and Design, Bournemouth Arts Institute, Bournemouth
2003 Gap Year
1998 – 2003 GCSE’S, AS and A-levels – Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Devon.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 ‘Horizons – Home and Abroard’, MST Gallery, Bournemouth, Dorset
2011 ‘Power, Light and Luminosity’, GX Gallery, London
2010 ‘A Celebration of Marine Art’, Sea Pictures Gallery, Suffolk, England
2010 ‘La Côte’, Auberge de la Croix du Pape, Eze, France
2010 ‘La Côte d’Azur’ Antibes, France
2010 ‘Le Mer et Le Ciel’, Les Vieux Murs, Antibes, France
2009 ‘PACA’, Juan Les Pins, France
2009 ‘Seascapes’, 23 Haven Rd, Canford Cliffs, Dorset
2008 ‘Sea, Land and Sky’, The Pelly Gallery, Lyme Regis, Dorset
2006 ‘Horizons’, Lyme Regis Boys Club, Dorset
2003 Gap year show, Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Devon
2003 Gap year show, Axminster Arts Café, Axminster, Devon
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Group Exhibition, GX Gallery, London
2011 ‘Spirit of the Coast’, Sea Pictures Gallery, Suffolk, England
2010 Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2010 ‘ArtMonaco’10’, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2009 Royal Society of Marine Artists Annuel Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2009 ‘Dorset Perspective’, Mulberry Tree Gallery, Swanage, Dorset
2008 ‘Coast’, Mulberry Tree Gallery, Swanage, Dorset
2008 'Flock 2', GX Gallery, London
2008 ‘Wimbledon College of Art Summer Degree Show’, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2007 Misguided Souls, Covent Garden, London.
2007 Juicy Picnic, Great Suffolk ST. Gallery, Southwark, London.
FAIRS
2011 Windsor Art Fair, Berkshire, England
2009 NEC, Birmingham, England
2009 Blanchard Collective, Wiltshire
PRIZES
2010 ‘Young Artist of the Year’, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London
2009 ‘Young Artist of the Year’, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London
1998 Blundell’s School Art Award