Mikey cuddihy biography of barack

After the death of both my parents (in separate car accidents) when I was nine, I was sent to England where I attended Summerhill, a small progressive school, run by A.S. Neill, in Suffolk. I left school at 16, and studied at Napier and then Edinburgh College of Art, before moving to London in 1971 to study painting at Central School of Art, and then Chelsea College of Art for my MA.

In the mid 70's, I shared a studio in Butler's Wharf, Bermondsey, with fellow graduates from Chelsea School of Art, and (working upstairs), the film-maker, Derek Jarman; the sculptor Andrew Logan; the painter Stephen Buckley; and just along the wharf, Stephen Cripps, the pyrotechnic sculptor, and performance artists Anne Bean and Paul Burwell.

In the late 70's I moved to East London where I co-founded The Beck Road Arts Trust with Helen Chadwick, Genesis & Paula Orridge, painters Sandra Porter, Alison Turnbull, Trevor Shearer, Pete Smith, filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski & others.