Mychael Barratt | New Cats & Dogs Showcase

16 July - 3 August 2025

Eames Fine Art Studio

54-58 Tanner Street

(Entrance on Pope Street)

London SE1 3PH

During his Homage Part II show earlier in the year, we asked Mychael which artist he would paid homage to next. Struggling to choose between Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet and Edvard Munch, he opened the question up to the public.

One poll later and after many votes, the winner is... Gustav Klimt!

Artworks
Mychael Barratt
The Kiss - Gustav Klimt’s Dog, 2025
£360

In my last exhibition with Eames Fine Art, they asked me who I was planning to pay homage to next and I replied that I was uncertain, but had a few options. They decided, during the duration of the exhibition, to hold a vote where I would promise to create an homage of whichever one received the highest number of bites. The outright winner was Gustav Klimt and I was excited to do this but realised that it came with the necessity to use 24 carat gold leaf, a material I had never used before. Both a daunting and an expensive prospect. Fortunately, the relationship I have built with the master printer I collaborate with meant that she wasn’t phased. ‘No problem. I haven’t worked with it either but we’ll figure it out.’ I decided that the homage had to be 'The Kiss', one of the most surprisingly impressive works I’ve ever seen in the flesh. It was very tricky work, further complicated by the fact that we needed to print about four layers of ink on top of the gold, but in the end we were both very pleased (and relieved).
New Artists' Cats and Dogs

Artworks
Mychael Barratt
Marilyn - Pauline Boty’s Dog, 2025
£280

Pauline Boty was one of the originators of the British Pop Art movement in the 60s. One of the most precociously gifted artists of her generation, had she not died so tragically young, she would have gone on to be one of the most celebrated. She had a great affinity with Marilyn Monroe and included her in a number of paintings. My homage seems to me like something they both would have appreciated.
Artworks
Mychael Barratt
Rembrandt’s Dog IV, 2025
£280

Rembrandt is one of my all time favourite artists and he has been often referenced in my work. 'Rembrandt’s Dog I' was a portrait of the artist at the absolute peak of both his notoriety and his success. Living in a splendid four storey house in a fashionable part of Amsterdam with commissions lining up well into the future. Rembrandt’s Dog II was well before this period when he was just starting out, a gifted young man studying the effects of light and motion in paint. Rembrandt’s Dog IV is of a much older artist whose career is not quite what it had been but whose artistic powers have never been greater.
- Mychael Barratt
  Harland Miller's Dog, 2025
  
  £280.00
- Mychael Barratt
  Harland Miller's Dog - AP, 2025
  
  £280.00
Harland Miller is renowned for his depictions of classic Penguin novels but with replaced, often humorous or ironic, titles and himself as the author. In mine, the Penguin classic is much more as the publisher intended (although I have had a little fun with the logo) with a depiction of a famous book whose main character is a dog. The screenprint contains a mixture of photographic and hand drawn layers.
Artworks
Mychael Barratt
William Kentridge’s Cat, 2025
£280

William Kentridge’s work is notable for a variety of recurring motifs, and this piece is like a magpie gathering of a number of them. He often prints or draws on found pages from textbooks. He created a sculpture of a scrappy cat that when rotated, metamorphosed into a coffee pot. He has also made multiple, often humorous, short films where he is in discussion or argument with himself. Those references will give you all the information necessary to ‘read’ this print. Kentridge is seated on an eighteenth century téte-a-téte chair in conversation with himself, pouring himself a coffee. The scrappy cat is somewhat uncomfortably perched in his lap. And the etching itself is printed on found pages from the Oxford Book of Quotations, each one containing a quote referring to either cats or coffee. The codes in the titles are to assist you to find them.
Artworks
Mychael Barratt
Dubuffet's Dog, 2025
£280

Jean Dubuffet was a wonderfully unpredictable artist. Many of his works are in a stand alone style and yet instantly recognisable as Dubuffet. My homage is inspired by his painting of a cow formed by marks made in the negative space surrounding it. The starting point was an acetate that had been laid protectively over a slab of ink and when removed, created the abstract pattern that covers this image.
Basquiat's Dog II | Unique Trial Proofs

I decided that I wanted to do a further Basquiat’s dog screenprint after doing an oil stick drawing that I loved of a scrappy, hungry little dog. I decided to try out different versions of how to colour the finished piece, so I printed monochromatic dogs and set to work with my enormous box of Sennelier pastels, creating 10 unique trial proofs. In the end, this has not actually made my life any easier as I have no idea which one I prefer.
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Mychael Barratt

New Artists' Cats and Dogs

Mychael Barratt

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Mychael Barratt

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Basquiat's Dog II | Unique Trial Proofs

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