Michael Hall
School Director
Michael Hall is a visual artist, writer and curator based in Folkestone, Kent. he founded SCHOOL in 2018 and co-founded Invisible Print Studio in 2013. Alngside his curatorial work he maintains an evolving painting practice that explores clarity, connection and cognitive pattern-making.
Hall’s paintings capture moments in which disparate ideas, images or emotions suddenly align and make perfect sense. When that clarity dissolves, the painting remains as a trace - a visual record of connections. Working as an adult artist with ADHD, Hall draws directly from the hyperfocus and associative thinking that shape his experience of the world. His mind moves between intensity and meandering connection, often linking visual references, language and cultural memory in unexpected ways.
He has curated a variety of exhibitions and projects since graduating from The Royal College of Art in 2009. These include exhibitions by Bruce McLean, Michael Brick, Simon Patterson, Ana Milenkovic, Daniel Rapley, Steven Scott, Catherine Haines, Steph Goodger and Julian Rowe. Group exhibitions include 'Call Me Ishmael: An Exhibition on the Theme of Moby Dick' and 'The Arca Project: An Exhibition Inspired by the Work of W.G.Sebald’ co-curated with Graeme Gilloch.
Hall has written for publications including the new book 'Bruce McLean: Minimal Invisible Missing', the 2011 publication 'Dominion: A Whale Symposium', 'Garageland 8' and conceived and curated the project 'In Conversation with Stuart Sutcliffe' that was published as a book in 2012.
Born 1978. Lives and works in Folkestone