Michael Banks
about Michael Banks
Londres (Reino Unido), 1960
Michael Banks is a widely accredited photographer worldwide. He started working as a graphic designer, and in 1981 he studied a Fine Arts degree in Florence, where he discovered the possibility of creating abstract art through the camera. After three years in Florence, he devoted himself to advertising photography in London for 10 years. He began his exclusively artistic career 11 years ago, during this time he has exhibited his photographs in London art galleries. His work can be described as abstract contemporary photographic art, which has led him to collaborations with Art Consultants, Interior Designers and Gallerists, with an art that is specified for the high international profile Hospitality, Leisure, Corporate and residential interiors. Your customer list is a "who's who" of global hotel chains and prestigious corporations that span the US. USA, Europe, Middle and the Far East, as well as a select group of internationally recognized private collectors.
about the artist's works
Michael Banks performs a work whose fundamental protagonists are the forms, composition, colour and movement that he achieves through magical effects that surround all his art. From the purest abstraction and without the need to be connected with objective reality, his photographs reflect and externalize a state of introspection; compositions that dialogue with the surrounding space and offer new perceptual possibilities to establish harmonious relations that transfer the viewer to other realities. Sometimes he manipulates his photographs, other times his images are what results from firing his machine in a certain way but the result is always, sublime pieces full of character.