Michael Stipe

Portraits of resilience and vulnerability, with QR-linked audio of comments and anecdotes from Stipe In this third, photo-based chapter of the Damiani series, Michael Stipe explores strength, courage and vulnerability, pausing the project abruptly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What follows is a lockdown interpretation of a 21st-century portrait, with a resolute desire to show our resilience, our humour, our...

Michael Stipe: Even the birds gave pause presents a series of works-in-progress that continue an exploration of contemporary portraiture, instinct, and abstraction. Featured in How to Spend It - Financial Times Classical and conceptual forms create a cohesive whole from seemingly disparate elements, building what is hopefully an inclusive and complete vision, in which the familiar and unfamiliar are given...