This ‘Bio’ was written in 2019, just three years ago.
This is not useful as a bio, to be used professionally. The truth cannot be employed in the businesss of art. This bio may find a happy residence, application, here on the blog.
Michael Snape mostly works in sculpture. Other activities such as painting, music and writing reinforce this practice. The sculptural work is mostly in steel and is characterised by being consistently variable, from working with text, abstraction and figuration. He works for commission, is challenged by a brief, but is also assertively independent. A consistent thread is the lack of a governing aspect.
Success in one’s career depends upon providing an even consistency at a high standard. An experimental approach cannot guarantee an even outcome. Given variable parameters, failure is as likely as success. It is not that success has eluded Snape, but that Snape has eluded success. Success is the death trap for emerging, mid-career and late career artists.
Culture can never be guaranteed as a given but is something that emerges from time to time as a consequence of random collisions.