Sorcha Dallas

Music dazzles the onlooker into a happy forgetfulness – the nauseating filth of the highways, the cattle stabled in hospital buildings, and the fever clearly flitting through the tenements of the poor. So turn left 200 metres after the Agip station.

Well, this year its going to be different. My holiday in Sicily has opened my eyes to the power of the sun. Slumped in my chair, I thought I’d passed the age for sleeping in the afternoon. Turn on the TV, I heard, and then I was watching the End of the Polish S. of H. We welcomed, with toasts, the Inauguration of Benedict XVI. After all, I thought, he’s just a man like me.

Alan Michael, 2005

Alan Michael often uses imagery and texts within his paintings and drawings to draw attention to patterns and structures of quotation. Previous exhibitions have described the edifices of Art Cinema in the 2000s, and the contract between artist and audience as cemented by approved references. In ‘The Invention of Birth Control’‚Äö the specific origins of source material are irrelevant and are best thought of as mirages, a retreat from Camp.