Candles for the Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham – Christ in Glory and Crucifixion from the Harley Bible; Our Lady & St Catherine of Sienna in Bow – Noli Me Tangere from Livre d’Images de Madame Marie Belgian (Hainault); and a baptisimal candle with the icon of St Helen mother of Constantine
Camaradas 2019. Giuseppe Marasco and I painted each others mother reprising our format of 2017 with the thought to build on the success of our personal portraits of each other. We won a Pebeo sponsored painting prize for our entry entitled ‘Your Mum’.
‘The artists have previously presented gold double portraits of one another painted in the technique and codified style of Byzantine Icon painting. Retaining this format they now paint each other’s mother. A planned progression of Anglo-Mexican portraits might include attention to artifacts, national costume and materials communicating cultural, tribal, or national identity. With these in mind the label ‘Your Mum’ wholeheartedly embraces the maternal insult and universal playground taunt in which the same points of celebration are as likely to equally challenge our insecurities.’
Advent & Chrismastide Show 2018. Showing Virgin of Tenderness, egg tempera and gold leaf on paper. Featured artists also include Lucy Skinner’s Bethlehem, Alice Robertson’s Presentation and Liz Asher’s Visitation.
Mike’s icon of Our Lady Tenderness included in St Patrick’s Studios Christmas card pack of 5. Artwork credits clockwise from the top Bernard Allen, Mike Quirke, Lucinda May, Nikki Gardham, Alice Robertson
Arran Knight’s personal choice for this solo exhibition of old and new work at the pilates studio in Wapping.
Exhibition by St Patrick’s Studios to coincide with Adoremus congress in Liverpool. Exhibiting Artists: Carla Stone, Alice Robertson, Bernard Allen, Roseleen Walsh, Mike Quirke.
A selection of older and more recent work for this second outing at St Michael’s
The faculty of the Historic Churches Committe granting permission to work with Mike’s designs for the decoration of the reredos screen commissioned by Guardian Angels RC Church Mile End as part of their 150 celebrations. A Grade II listed building any work on the church has to pass before the committee. The reredos screen is part of a larger project also to include the installation of a stone altar desiged by the overall project manager Bernard Allen.
Invited by John Bateson to share Summer Open House in his Brixton home with gallery extension. It was an opportunity to show a mixture of old and new work.
Gallery III exhibit 118 – ‘Ancient & Modern: Double Portraits Giuseppe Marasco & Mike Quirke each paints the other’ – Egg Tempera and Gold Leaf on Board. For more information visit link
