Michael Beare lives and works on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

His paintings are boldly graphic in style, with pre-planned compositions and intense colour schemes that almost look as though they are illuminated from behind like a computer screen. The clearly delineated imagery combines comic book simplicity with the complexity of modernist abstraction.

Each painting undergoes much revision and experimentation, mostly through trial and error. A fragment of one idea may evolve into another arrangement with new visual relationships. Chance and randomness are contained and reorganized. It’s a collage process with a very deliberate shaping of form. Clarity and impact are important. So is intuition and feeling.

His work is represented in the collections of the University of Wollongong and Charles Sturt University. He’s had several solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions and has been a finalist in the Sulman Prize, Fishers Ghost Art Award and the Mosman Art Prize.

July 2025