Michael Raedecker

Art Brokerage: Michael Raedecker Dutch Artist: b. 1963. Born in the Netherlands (1963), Michael Raedecker studied fashion design and art in Amsterdam before moving to London in 1996. Winner of the John Moore's Prize in 1999 and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000, Raedecker's work is uniquely recognisable through his trademark combination of painting with embroidery and appliquéd elements. Raedecker paints timeless subjects: landscapes, portraits, interiors and still lifes. Addressing the preoccupations of traditional Dutch painting, such as composition and light, his works offer a quiet classicism that is hauntingly contemporary. Michael Raedecker's paintings revel in the architecture of illusion. Each canvas explicitly details its unconventional method of making. Poured puddles of paint, tangled masses of yarn and intricately stitched details exist as self-contained gestures, devices with their own layered logic, conjoining to create a surreal and dream-like sense of space. Listings wanted.