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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    Born Under A Wandering Star by Michael Tierney
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    Born Under A Wandering Star by Michael Tierney

    Born Under A Wandering Star

    Paintings - 31x31 cm
    Yippee Yi-Oh, Yippee Yi-Ay by Michael Tierney
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    Yippee Yi-Oh, Yippee Yi-Ay by Michael Tierney

    Yippee Yi-Oh, Yippee Yi-Ay

    Paintings - 100x100 cm
    Yippity Boom De Boom by Michael Tierney
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    Yippity Boom De Boom by Michael Tierney

    Yippity Boom De Boom

    Paintings - 100x100 cm
    Plain Jane Superbrain by Michael Tierney
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    Plain Jane Superbrain by Michael Tierney

    Plain Jane Superbrain

    Paintings - 50x50 cm
    Coolsville by Michael Tierney
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    Coolsville by Michael Tierney

    Coolsville

    Paintings - 70x50 cm
    ...and Roller Skate by Michael Tierney
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    ...and Roller Skate by Michael Tierney

    ...and Roller Skate

    Paintings - 56x56 cm
    Monster by Michael Tierney
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    Monster by Michael Tierney

    Monster

    Paintings - 100x100 cm

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