Michael Fullerton David Milligan (Surveillance Specialist, Glasgow City Council, Housing Benefit Anti-Fraud Unit) 2004 Courtesy The Artist and Counter Gallery, London enlarge

Michael Fullerton's practice can be characterised as an ongoing investigation into the relationship between information and interpretation. Fascinated by the transmission of data – whether written, spoken or painted – Fullerton interrogates the reliability of evidence and the nature of truth.

The style of portraits he is showing in the Triennial are inspired by the eighteenth century English painter, Thomas Gainsborough, an artist that Fullerton believes embodies his concerns with aesthetics, politics and ethics. His Gainsborough-style portraits are all of individuals whose personal agendas are allegorised as aesthetic dilemmas.

Michael Fullerton Stuart Christie: I love my world 2006 Oil on linen Courtesy the artist and Counter Gallery, London Installation View © Tate 2006 enlarge		Michael Fullerton Beatrice Lyall 2006 Oil on linen Courtesy the artist and Counter Gallery, London Installation View © Tate 2006 enlarge
Michael Fullerton Gainsborough screenprint 2006 Screenprint on newspaper Courtesy the artist and Counter Gallery, London Installation View © Tate 2006 enlarge		Michael Fullerton The Alchemy of Love and Lust 2006 Mixed media Courtesy the artist and Cabinet, London Installation View © Tate 2006 enlarge

Biography

Born in 1971 in Bellshill, Scotland
2000–2002 Glasgow School of Art

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Lives and works in Glasgow