Michael Speller
Michael is an imaginative figurative sculptor working primarily in bronze. Since his very first visit to a foundry he was drawn to the fluidity and the challenges bronze presents, this is reflected and expressed in all his work. His distinctive and playful elongated figures are often impressed with emotive words and objects to create hugely expressive and textural surfaces. Solitary or grouped, his figures represent how we live in the world, combining the influences of family, friends, environment and society.
“My work with the human form attempts to find a rhythm and balance in our lives, reflecting and realising our imperfections and then counterbalancing them with positivity and support in order to achieve a visual and spiritual equilibrium within ourselves and the world around us”
Trained in Chelsea College of Arts he was named official artist for the BT Art of Sport Programme for The 2012 London Olympics and was for many years was a resident artist at The Art Academy, London. He works from his studio is in Bermondsey, which is set the old railway arches and the foundry is a short distance away in East London.
