IMAGES FROM CHANCE 3 DAYS IN THE NEVADA DESERT 1996

MIKE TEENAGE BONFIRE 2021 acrylic on glass

emulsion acrylic paint and paper on glass 20 x 10 cm 2021

Evidence board also known as crazy wall (a collage with string to mark connections)

LISA acrylic on glass 14 x 7 cm 2020

My space isn’t like a flower it’s mine

a rose, no

I’m a man

FLOWERS FOR MIKE DANDELIONS

What he called Structured interplay I called intertextuality

Sense comes after the fact

A state of limbo hormonally charged called youth culture

In 1904 G Stanley Hall wrote the book Adolescence he observed that after

industrialisation a space opened up

What was previously farm work for families became education

Adolescence the death of childhood and the madness of adults

A gap

Mike presented forgotten spaces as subjective frames for trauma real and imagined

MIKE All my work is about abuse not only my abuse but everybody’s abuse

I run with it

All work is an unconscious sense expression  of a lost/repressed? memory

SCREENGRAB AMAERU FALLOUT 1972 Buried in someone else’s grief (intergenerational trauma)

Finally a meticulous replica of the artists childhood home commissioned by Artangel

With a dark space beneath

It killed him and he killed him 27 10 1954 – 21 1 2012

MIKE KELLEY TAKE 2

FT Golden Syrup Safeways 1989

Frankenstein daisy 1931

Doll Sally Miles 1961

Guitar Drag Christian Marclay 2000

Heart Jacqueline Gaer 1994

Hal John Miles 1994

CSA deer 2000

Passport photo 1976

Heidi Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy 1992

he once said the art world was a place, a harbor for those who fail to make the appropriate transition from childhood to adult (before he died he stated to an LA times reporter that when he was in high school he would never choose to become an artist).

I had my careers advice at school in a portakabin and was told I should be a nurse.

the grieving 1995