Michael Howard   MA, FRSA

Michael Howard is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and President of Bolton DFAS. He is also a practicing artist: a painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramicist.he represented the U.K. at the Varna festival of Art in 2006 and has exhibited at the Royal Academy, New York Art Fair and the Manchester Metropolitan University and many other venues. his work is represented in the Manchester Art Gallery and in many private collections here and abroad.

He curated many exhibitions including the exhibition ‘Exploding Paintings – Lowry’s Industrial Landscape of 1953’ at the Lowry December 2007-May 2008 and 'Towards the empty Tomb' part of City of Culture celebrations at Liverpool Cathedral, 2008.

Michael has published widely on European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his books include: L. S. Lowry: A Visionary Artist, (He also worked on the film on the artist that acts as an introduction to the artist’s life and work at the Lowry Centre), Goya, Whistler, Monet, Cézanne, The Impressionists by Themselves, The Stations of the Cross / The Captive Figure and the award-winning dramatic interpretation and publication of material of the Dadaists in 1916. A New Order: An Evening at the Cabaret Voltaire. He was commissioned to write a personal guide to the Manchester Art Gallery, UPclose. His book on Monet has just been published by the Musée Marmottan and Andre Deutsch, Paris and his most recent book, on Van Gogh is due out later in 2009.

Michael has featured on television and radio many times and in 2004 he and Ghislaine worked on the film Degas and the Dance, directed by Mischa Scorer which has received many awards including one of the prestigious Peabody awards.

Michael's research interests are nineteenth and twentieth century British and European art (especially the work of LS Lowry) and exploring the creative and academic relationship between fine art and academic practice.







Qualifications
BA (History of Modern Art and Design), - Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1977
MA (Art History) - Courtauld Institute of Art, 1980

Professional Activities
External examiner for Christies Education, Modern Art Studies Programme
University of Wolverhampton; University of Chester
Member of the Righton Press
Visiting Professor in Critical Theory, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, USA, 2004-
Producer and director of the film The Yellow Wallpaper, Floating World and Johnny Cake Productions, 2004
Consultant and participator in various television programmes including: Degas and the Dance, Quickfire Productions, 2004, recipient of a Peabody award; Degas: an Old Man Mad About Art, for BBC Omnibus, Scorer Associates, 1998
Exhibitor in Sex, Death and Flatpack Furniture, Manchester Metropolitan University, March-April 2005

Eexhibitor and co-curator) The Artist's Book, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, August - September 2005, the Metropolitan University, Mexico City, September 2006 and the American Institute, Costa Rica and as BIBLIOMANIA with additonal exhibits Manchester

Organised a series of creative and academic events around the centenary of Wittgenstein's time in the north-west 1908-11

Curated Lowry exhibtion at The Lowry January - March 2007

Co-curated 'Towards the Empty Tomb' for Liverpool Cathedral City of Culture celbrations.


Forthcoming Publications / Activities

Van Gogh, February 2010, Anness Books

'Just Walking' A project provisionally entitled 'Just Walking' - a collaboration between the artist, Ghislaine Howard and Michael Howard of MMU and Salford University, Arts for Health and the Lowry. It is planned to culminate in a major exhibition at the Lowry and one at Salford University in 2012: both events are planned to coincide with the Olympics.