About
London-born artist and photographer.
ChatGPT says "Miklos is playing the infinite game of meaning-making: using art and technology to probe memory, perception, and the human condition".
Artistic inquiry: humanism, sociology, architecture, science, technology, industry, and history.
How we perceive and remember the past, our impact on the environment and others
The unrelenting power and grandeur of the natural world.
Visual approach: to document both the ordinary and the extraordinary; seeking clarity in beauty and ugliness; surface and depth.
1985: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Hornsey College of Art
1987: Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship and artist-in-residence, Christ’s Hospital School, West Sussex
1980s-1990s: exhibited at leading London institutions and galleries, including the Serpentine Gallery, the Royal Academy, and the Contemporary Art Society.
Temporarily paused painting following a spinal injury in the mid‑1990s; gradually resumed creative work after surgery in 1999, progressively shifting focus to photography from 2006.
The Sixth Land
Enter the Sixth Land. Gouache on paper, 1991
The Sixth Land is the idea of a realm that is both familiar and unknown, a place reached only through a transformative journey. On this journey, you realise that everything is different. You recall that somehow, everything has already happened, and everything has changed. This experience alters your perception, awakening a profound longing within your soul.
It's a vivid yet elusive memory. The Sixth Land is far away, but close by. It is across the sea and in the desert and inside a mountain and through a forest.
The name, ‘The Sixth Land,’ invented itself in a dream so vivid in its narrative clarity that it shaded my thoughts and emotions for a long time afterwards.
Over time, it became my shorthand for what is unusual, noteworthy, or overlooked, encapsulating the strangeness hidden in plain sight, the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the extraordinary. As a city dweller, I find this realm both in my immediate surroundings and distant places that capture my imagination.
