Michael, who trained at Birmingham and Royal College of Art, lives in Dumfries and Galloway.  Discussing his work he says “The intended function of the work I make is to spiritually enrich those that live with it – if it doesn’t it has failed.

“During the last thirty years I have been fascinated by different ideas, images and forms, but the theme of paying homage to our creativity and to our landscape has remained a constant.

"Since 9/11 my raison d’etre has been to make weapons of peace – I am naïve enough to think a vase of flowers on the kitchen table makes the world a better place.”

His work is currently on show in Treasures of Today at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery where there is also a short film on his philosophy and surroundings.  The exhibition then moves to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

He will be showing work in 2007 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London at Collect with the Scottish Gallery and in the exhibition Silver of the Stars.  He is also one of the makers exhibiting in The Cutting Edge exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.

Through an Inches Carr Bursary he is currently developing printmaking using the technique of chasing to make a series of containers for bowls for a forthcoming exhibition in Japan.

Commissions include work for Bute House, 10 Downing Street, York Minster, Lichfield and Carlisle cathedrals, the mace for the Scottish Parliament and HM The Queen’s Golden Jubilee bowl.  His work is held in public collections across the UK.

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