Michael Kennedy studied at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design and at the Slade School, and before turning full time to his own work had a career teaching art in Higher Education. He is a painter and printmaker, exhibiting widely with the Printmakers Council, but his work has also been seen at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; at Originals; at the Royal West of England Academy, and at various other open exhibitions. He is included in three Boxed Sets published by East London Printmakers, all of which are now in the collection of the V&A Museum. His work is also included in the archive of the Printmakers Council held at the Scarborough Museum and Art Gallery. His painting ‘Heart’s Desires’ was selected and reproduced in the series of notecards published by the Royal Academy in 2014.
Selected Exhibitions
2020 | Colour, Royal Overseas League, London |
2019 | Land, Sea and Sky, Ropewalk, Barton on Humber |
PmC at Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough | |
Journeys, London Print Studio and Travelling | |
2018 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London |
Printfest7Oaks, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks | |
2017 | Print City, Morley Gallery, London |
Latest Edition, Linden Hall Studios, Deal | |
Motoazabu Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo | |
Koppel Project Space, London | |
Lasting Impressions, Scarborough Art Gallery | |
2016 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London |
Pushing Boundaries, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin | |
2015 | Fifty Years of Artists Prints, Bankside Gallery, London |
Works on Paper, Barbican Library | |
2014 | CMYK, Pie Factory, Margate |
2013 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London |
2012 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London |
Turn, Turn, Turn. Recent prints from Printmakers Council, Margate Gallery, Margate | |
2011 | Pushing Print, Margate Gallery, Margate |
Vyner Street Gallery, London | |
2010 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London |
Pushing Print, Old Town Gallery, Margate | |
Bankside Gallery, London | |
2009 | Pushing Print, Old Town Gallery, Margate |
RWA Open Print Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy | |
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London | |
Originals 09, the Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries | |
7th British Miniprint Exhibition, touring 2009/10 | |
2008 | Affordable Art Fair, London |
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London | |
New Prints, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham | |
2007 | Small Print/Big Impression, Leicester Print Workshop, touring 2007/8 |
Originals 07, the Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries | |
2006 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London |
6th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, touring 2006/7 | |
Originals 06, the Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries | |
2005 | 3rd Muestra Miniprint Exhibition, Rosario, Argentina |
Originals 05, the Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries | |
2004 | Winter Exhibition, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham |
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London | |
RWA Open Print Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy | |
Originals 04, the Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries |