Michael Tierney

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Michael Tierney stands out for his fantastical landscape paintings inspired by contemporary culture.
Combining acrylic, emulsion and pastel, bold graphic lines and juxtaposed shapes, his pieces are a flotsam and jetsam of colours and creatures.
Michael Tierney received a scholarship to study Art and Design before being scouted by the Saatchi Gallery.

British artist Michael Tierney stands out for his fantastical mixed-media paintings which conceptualise the chaotic and multi-layered aspects of contemporary culture that often leave us over-stimulated and disorientated. A blend of Street Art, Pop Art and graphic design, his colourful menageries sizzle with characters, creatures and colours plucked from the artist’s imagination.

Michael Tierney’s Education and Early Career

Michael received a scholarship to study art at the University of Brighton. Only four years after he graduated, his paintings were snatched up by the Saatchi Gallery and exhibited at their ‘Spring Fever’ exhibition. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal got wind of Michael’s talent, calling him a ‘rising star’ in the industry. Since, his mixed-media mash-ups have continued to humour and delight observers across the globe, featuring in The Guardian newspaper and on the Royal Academy and Dazed websites. His pre-Brexit Pro-EU posters, in particular, garnered media attention.

Style and Approach

Michael’s creations are a maelstrom of ideas and simulacra expressed through bright colours which pop from the canvas, bold graphic lines and juxtaposed shapes. His complex compositions are inspired by places the artist has visited as well as his impressions of everyday life but reflected through distorted, funhouse mirrors. Fun and playful pieces such as acrylic and spray paint Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! create tensions between real life, the alien and the imaginary. Michael’s style epitomises the weird and wonderful of fantasy art, and the overwhelming stimuli modernity confronts us with.

Michael Tierney Artworks

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    Vortex by Michael Tierney
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    Vortex by Michael Tierney

    Vortex

    Paintings - 80x80 cm
    SNAFU by Michael Tierney
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    SNAFU by Michael Tierney

    SNAFU

    Paintings - 48x48 cm
    Cha Cha Cha by Michael Tierney
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    Cha Cha Cha by Michael Tierney

    Cha Cha Cha

    Paintings - 80x40 cm
    Skull in Space by Michael Tierney
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    Skull in Space by Michael Tierney

    Skull in Space

    Paintings - 50x50 cm
    Limpet Pastelle Realness by Michael Tierney
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    Limpet Pastelle Realness by Michael Tierney

    Limpet Pastelle Realness

    Paintings - 24x24 cm
    Portal by Michael Tierney
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    Portal by Michael Tierney

    Portal

    Paintings - 70x70 cm
    clusterf**k II by Michael Tierney
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    clusterf**k II by Michael Tierney

    clusterf**k II

    Paintings - 35x35 cm
    Clusterf**k by Michael Tierney
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    Clusterf**k by Michael Tierney

    Clusterf**k

    Paintings - 29x29 cm
    Random Character Generator by Michael Tierney
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    Random Character Generator by Michael Tierney

    Random Character Generator

    Paintings - 25x25 cm
    Creature of the Night by Michael Tierney
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    Creature of the Night by Michael Tierney

    Creature of the Night

    Paintings - 80x80 cm
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    Supernova by Michael Tierney

    Supernova

    Paintings - 70x70 cm
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    Disco Relic by Michael Tierney

    Disco Relic

    Paintings - 20x20 cm
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    Zero Gravity by Michael Tierney

    Zero Gravity

    Paintings - 76x76 cm
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    The Nights by Michael Tierney

    The Nights

    Paintings - 70x70 cm
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    One for Sorrow by Michael Tierney

    One for Sorrow

    Paintings - 70x70 cm
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    Your Makeup is Terrible by Michael Tierney

    Your Makeup is Terrible

    Paintings - 50x50 cm

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