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Mikey
Six days a week, throughout the ski season, Australian Michael Stacey knuckles down to a hard day’s work at mega ski resort Serfaus Fiss Ladis’ busiest hire shop. It’s now 12 winters and counting that Mikey has been returning to the shop, these days he’s part of the furniture. Seasonal employment has a rhythm, Mikey’s winters are mountain bound; lunch breaks and days off are a blur of powder runs, Tiroler Gröstl and Bauern Tequila. And when powder is gone, Mikey finds time for his other passion… art. Not totally sure how to categorise his work, he jokily describes it as “scientific Illustrator meets Albert Hoffman”. On reflection he simplifies that to “Sometimes real, sometimes surreal”. Art is something that brings balance to his life, he explains “My drawings and paintings are a great way to relax, when I’m right into a piece it can feel somewhat meditative – like drifting into a dream.” As more and more people discover his work, he’s eager to spend less time grinding bases and more time creating, he says “The past few years I’ve been developing my artwork with plans of building visual art into a parttime profession.”
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18 MIKEY STACEY
AUSTRALIAN / TIROL, AUSTRIA
