Artist Info
Mike Thorpe
Michael Thorpe was the principal lecturer and Head of Painting on the BA (Hons) Fine Art course and the Course Director on the PG Cert in Professional Studies in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. He was previously a painting tutor at the Royal College of Art for ten years and was elected a fellow of the college as well as the Royal Society of Arts. He has also taught and lectured at many British and overseas art schools and universities including School of Visual Arts, Parsons and Cooper Union in New York, Brown University Rhode Island, Kolej Bandar Utama in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and most recently Sharjar University School of Art in the UAE where he wrote and taught the colour module of the fine art degree course.
He has been awarded a Boise, a Leverhulme, an Italian Government and an Abbey British School at Rome scholarship and spent a year in the USA on a Winston Churchill Fellowship.
He is a member of the London Group where he exhibits regularly and has work in public and private collections including the Arts Council of GB