Michael Raedecker(B.1963)
Michael Raedecker is a Dutch artist currently living and working in London.He first trained as a fashion designer studying at the Gerrit Rietreld Academies,Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie ,Amsterdam before retraining as an artist at Goldsmiths College in London.His background in fashion has obvious influences in his later work as an artist.He combines thread with paint.His paintings often dark and atmospheric ,sometimes hint at the Dutch still life paintings and also subjects such as landscape and subjects such as garlands of flowers.Much of his work has a unsettling uneasy feeling about them.
I find it interesting that his earlier life as a fashion designer does effect his work as an artist and actually fairly obvious that his skills he leaned in fashion were utilised later on in his work.I can also relate to this myself and my early influences as a child growing up with my mother and her work as a tailor , picking up skills from her and gaining an interest in sewing and fashion.This has definitely had an impact on my own work with the materials and techniques used as well as subject matter, and also the biographical side of my work which comes out as part of my visual language of my work.
