lebenslauf und werdegang:

mike shane, geboren am 15.10.1970 in luxemburg, hat seine graphische, malerische und illustrative ausbildung in luxemburg ("beaux-arts") sowie in österreich ("graphische" und "designstudio st.pölten") absolviert.

es folgten ab 1993 ausstellungen in wien und luxemburg, die tätigkeit als designer und eventdekorateur für arcotel hotels & resorts, bis er im frühjahr 1999 unter dem titel "the visualizer" eine konzeptions- und kreativgemeinschaft ins leben rief.

seit oktober 1999 setzt sich mike shane mit bodypainting auseinander.

highlights:

- vize-europameister - titel 2001
- fernsehauftritte für "RTL luxemburg", "RTL deutschland", "kabel1", "ORF",      "ATV","TW1","WNTV","SAT1"und"PRO7","Puls4"
- werbespot-produktion in luxemburg (de cecco 2008)
- lifeball-auftritte mit 4-6 modellen seit 2004 für austria-tabak
- wwf-aktion gegen beifang, berlin 2008
- austria’s next top model 2009
- jurymitglied beim world bodypainting festival 2009
- austria`s next topmodel 2010

action-paintings:

legendary fockygasse “Initiation” 2001
transformationen in coop with magenta “live @ seitenblicke studios” 2002
canon colour story (B2B-tour bundesländer 2003)
world-bodypainting-festival “live on stage” 2003
VOX-action painting (wahre liebe 2004)
swiss-bodypainting day “live on stage” 2005
sharp electronics münchen 2006
world-bodypainting-festival “live fluoro show” 2006
CD-cover produktion global kryners “weg” 2007
world-bodypainting-festival “live with global kryners” 2008
german bodypainting festival “live on stage” 2008
art connects in coop with daaz "festival 2009 live"

bucherscheinungen/rezensionen/bandpromotion

hot nylons (edition skylight 2003)
CD_cover produktion für global kryners „weg“ 2007
bringing bodypainting to life (karala barendregt 2008)

wandmalereien:

bowling oase, salzburg (2007)
kegelbahn gasthaus breinreich, wittau (2008)

workshops:

2005,2007,2008: Living Room, Tulln, Workshops für Jugendliche zwischen 15 und 18 Jahren
2009: Workshop „Commercial Bodypainting“ und „Abstract Bodypainting“ für eine koreanische Delegation von Body-und Makeup-Artists im Zuge der Bodypainting-Academy Austria.

Karala Barendregt, author of „Bringing Bodypainting to Life“ about  Mike Shane:

Mike Shane, Luxembourg

Mike Shane’s style of bodypainting is exhilarating and potent. His creation of the ‘action painting’ style is an innovation and a breakthrough. The technique remains his alone, as he works in the ‘now’ to colour moments of space and time. His work brings together all the necessary aspects of bodypainting - painter, performer, photographer, with such clarity of vision that his artwork is unforgettable.

Mike has studied fine arts and in his performances work with athletic and balletic models whose movements are elegant and intriguing. Mike’s radical liquid splashes of colours contrast with each other on ever changing levels as he composes, changes and destroys his fluid orchestral artworks. His works also celebrate the movement of paint with gravity, how fast, where and why it will move a certain way over the shapes it reaches.

Mike has created an impressive portfolio of work for advertising and promotion. Some of these works are carried out in his action painting style but many of them show a separate angle to his work that is equally creative. Mike is able to take the logo or idea of the company he is contracted by and to design it into a bold pattern of colours that lives on the body. These bodypaintings are equally important as they show that it is possible to create a commercial bodypainting and still have an artwork as a finished product.