Michael Walls

Artist Statement

My own practice attempts to understand societies placement with consumerism regarding the mass-produced space they encounter on a daily basis. Using my art practice as a creative discipline to reconfigure the consumer landscape, or at times taking what exists within the space as a subject to manipulate with artistic mediums. 

Significant approach to my practice is manipulating the surrounding context of 21st-century consumer culture. Sometimes commenting on its psychological impact with imagery or dealing with my own relationship as the artist to the space encountered by the public. 

Dealing with the surrounding context of an expanding world of mass production, the questions I will continue to answer is where does my own practice fit within the sphere of mass imagery, and just as importantly how do I interact the public who are indeed affected by such imagery. 

I intend to continue and answer by creating work which is unexcepted within a consumer space and goes against the system of consumerism. Creating ideas and continue to use the artistic mediums at my disposal to produce site-specific installations, creating a spanner in the works of what is operating as a system of a see, then buy it society.