Michael Hall
School Director
Michael Hall is an artist, writer and curator. He launched School Gallery in 2018 and co-founded Invisible Print Studio in 2013.
He has curated a variety of exhibitions and projects since graduating from The Royal College of Art in 2009. These include exhibitions by Bruce McLean, Michael Brick, Simon Patterson, Ana Milenkovic, Daniel Rapley, Steven Scott, Catherine Haines, Steph Goodger and Julian Rowe. Group exhibitions include 'Call Me Ishmael: An Exhibition on the Theme of Moby Dick' and 'The Arca Project: An Exhibition Inspired by the Work of W.G.Sebald’ co-curated with Graeme Gilloch.
Hall has written for publications including the new book 'Bruce McLean: Minimal Invisible Missing', the 2011 publication 'Dominion: A Whale Symposium', 'Garageland 8' and conceived and curated the project 'In Conversation with Stuart Sutcliffe' that was published as a book in 2012.
His artworks encapsulate moments - memories, thoughts, things mentioned, watched, listened to and remembered. Random thoughts are paired with images, being overlaid or placed side-by- side, highlighting the workings of a wandering mind. Connections are random and meaning exists as a potential – realised through the experiential reading of the viewer. Melancholy and romance are imbedded in seemingly meaningless work.
Born 1978. Lives and works in Folkestone