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Michael Raedecker
Shortlisted: 2000

Raedecker's haunting, deserted landscapes are both familiar and unsettling. They show marginal places, dry and arid planes or valleys, barren woods, lone buildings smothered in thick blankets of snow, or half-glimpsed through the gloomy twilight. Raedecker carefully avoids any kind of explicit narrative in his paintings; he creates evocative images that have a dreamlike, cinematic quality, like dramatic stage sets waiting for the actors.

Michael Raedecker was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1963. Between 1985 and 1997 he attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the Ritjksakademie van Beeldene Kunsten, and then studied at Goldsmiths College. In 2000 he was shortlisted for his fresh approach to painting and his use of unusual materials as shown in his works exhibited at The Approach as well as the Stedelijk Van Abbenmuseum.

This information has been taken from The Turner Prize: Twenty Years, by Virginia Button, Tate Publishing, 2003.

View Michael Raedecker in the Tate Collection