Michael Hasted (born 1945) is a British artist, writer and director for the theatre and photographer.

Early life

Michael Hasted was expelled from school at the age of 16 for spending more time backstage at his local repertory theatre, The Everyman in Cheltenham, than on his studies. Unable to accept the place he had been offered at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School because he was too young to receive a grant, he spent the next few years working in rep all over Great Britain, notably The Everyman, Theatre Royal Lincoln, Queens Theatre, Horncurch and The Dundee Rep. He appeared in various productions with

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in Edinburgh in 1964. He also appeared in Z CARS on BBC TV.

Music career

He became involved in the music business in the mid 60s and was part of the '' Les Cousins'' in London's Soho where he designed their daily event poster and occasionally performed. He collaborated with Cat Stevens on a couple of songs, had a demo produced by Al Stewart and was backing singer on a couple of tracks of a

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album.

Artistic career

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"Schizophonia" and classical guitarist

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"The Height Below". In the early 1970s, he also took up illustration and painting. He produced book jackets and magazine illustrations including for ''Playboy'' with whom he worked for 20 years. His paintings have been exhibited in Europe, Japan and America and are in public collections in England, France, Greece and the United States. In the mid 1980s, he went to live in France and from 1996 until his return to England in 2003, ran ''The English Bookshop'' in Montolieu, the book village in the south of France. He now works as a writer and theatre director, journalist and photographer and runs the on-line theatre magazin
StageTalk Magazine
In 2011 he wrote a history of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham and wrote, produced and directed a revue in the theatre's Studio - 'Final Daze', featuring Robert Whelan, Wendy Abrahams and Steven Rayworth. In October 2014, he produced and directed John Mortimer's play THE DOCK BRIEF at the Everyman starring Tweedy the Clown and Mark Hyde. His book ''THESPIANS'',FeedARead, December 2014 actors' reminiscences of the 1940s to the 1970s with a foreword by

was published in December 2014.

Public collections owning pictorial works

* Arkansas Arts Centre Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas, US * Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, US * Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece *

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, Greensburg, PA, US * Museé d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, France * Polaroid (UK) Ltd.,

Selected bibliography

* ''THESPIANS'' by Michael Hasted, FeedARead, December 2014 * ''A THEATRE FOR ALL SEASONS'' by Michael Hasted, Jeremy Mills Publishing Ltd., England. September 2011 * ''The Cheltenham Book of Days'' by Michael Hasted. The History Press, England. March 2013 * ''Novum'' Gebrauchsgraphik (Munich) November 1973 pp. 28–33 * ''Munchner Merkur'' (Munich) 19 December 1975 * ''Graphis'' (Zürich) Spring 1978 p. 539 * ''Stern'' (Hamburg) 30 November 1978 p. 162 * ''Novum'' Gebrauchsgraphik (Munich) April 1979 pp. 41–50 * ''Munchner Merkur'' (Munich) 11 April 1979 p. 9 * ''Graphik'' (Munich) August 1979 pp. 24–25 * ''Leonardo'' (Paris) Summer 1980 pp. 186–191 * ''Graphis'' Annual 83/84 (Zürich) p. 222 * ''ART SYNECTICS'' by Nicholas Roukes. Davis Publications Inc. 1984 p. 26 * ''Novum'' Gebrauchsgraphik January 1993 pp. 44–47 * ''Hoggin' the Page '' by Martyn Hanson. Northdown Publishing 2005 pp 46–51 * ''Front Cover '' by Allan Powers, Mitchell Beazley 2006 p. 97

References

External links

* http://everymanbook.com * https://web.archive.org/web/20090209080231/http://kevinwalsh.co.uk/francebooks.htm * http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/instInfo/inst/12946/lang/1 * https://artfacts.net/artist/michael-hasted/179062 * https://web.archive.org/web/20081007194310/http://transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0203/booktowns.shtml * http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/article885008.ece * http://www.zdom.com/artistpainterpricesH8/HASTEDMichael.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20101005063245/http://epilog.de/Bibliothek/Alien-Contact/Beitrag/AC28_Gesicht_der_Buecher.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasted, Michael 20th-century British painters British male painters 21st-century British painters British illustrators Photographers from Gloucestershire 1945 births Living people 20th-century British male artists 21st-century British male artists