Michael Wallner
Blending urban geometry with bold experimentation, this artist transforms aerial photography and unconventional materials into luminous tributes to the world’s cities—where beauty is mapped from above and imagined anew.
Wallner celebrates the beauty of London through shapes, outlines, and colours defined by people and buildings. He tackles the challenge of finding a different way of presenting the world around him, whether it’s the quest to find extraordinary views, strange angles, and fantastic shapes or the search for the most unusual materials to work with. Wallner depicts the accidental communities that form within the city and its spaces, people coming together at train stations on their daily commute. His vivid use of colour foregrounds the lovely city.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Wimbledon Art Fair, London, 2020 | A River Runs Through It, Oxo Gallery, London, 2020.
Michael Wallner lives and works in South London.
“My art is created by digitally manipulating and painstakingly colouring my own photographs to produce pieces on usual materials.
Many of my pieces are created from aerial photographs, often taken while hanging out of helicopters with the doors off. The best patterns and abstract shapes in our landscapes can be seen from the air, I think. The grid patterns of New York’s avenues, LA’s Hollywood Hills, the beautiful shape of the Thames winding through London, and Hong Kong’s sensational skyline have all inspired my work.”
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