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Michael Hasted
Michael Hasted
Born	Bristol, England
Occupation(s)	Artist, theatre writer, director, and photographer

Michael Hasted (born 1945) is a British artist, writer, director for the theatre, and photographer.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} He appeared in various productions with Steven Berkoff, Penelope Keith, James Bolam and John Savident. He was in the controversial You'll Come to Love Your Sperm Test by (and with) John Antrobus at the Traverse Theatre^[1] in Edinburgh in 1964. He also appeared in Z CARS^[2] on BBC TV.

Music career

He became involved in the music business in the mid 60s and was one of the in-crowd at Les Cousins in London's Soho from 1965-1968 and supplied some of the decor. ^{[citation needed]}In April 1966 he hosted a solo gig by Van Morrison there. He also designed their daily event poster and occasionally performed. He collaborated with Cat Stevens on a couple of songs which were not recorded or published, had a demo produced by Al Stewart and was backing singer on a couple of tracks of a Jeff Lynne^[3] album.

Artistic career

He continued working in the record industry as a photographer and sleeve designer photographing Hawkwind, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ravi Shankar, Tiny Tim, Canned Heat, Free, Robert Palmer and did sleeves for The Groundhogs "Scratchin the Surface",^[4] Mike Batt "Schizophonia" and classical guitarist John Williams "The Height Below".^[5]^{[edition needed]}

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. ^[6]

His paintings have been exhibited in Europe, Japan and America and are in public collections in England, France, Greece and the United States.^[7]

In the mid-1980s, he went to live in France and from 1996 until his return to England in 2003, ran The English Bookshop^[8] in Montolieu, the book village in the south of France. He now works as a writer and theatre director, journalist and photographer. In 2011 he wrote a history of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham^[9]^[10] 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^[11]^[12] at the Everyman starring Tweedy the Clown and Mark Hyde. Also in 2014 He created the on-line theatre magazine StageTalk Magazine.^[13]

His book THESPIANS,^[14] actors' reminiscences of the 1940s to the 1970s with a foreword by Penelope Keith was published in December 2014.

Since 2017 he has lived in Holland where he created ArtsTalk Magazine.^[15]

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
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 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

^ "The cast of 'You'll Come to Love Your Sperm Test' at the Traverse". 10 March 2004.
^ "One Good Turn". IMDb.
^ "Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO (TV Movie 2012) – IMDb". IMDb.
^ Hoggin' the Page by Martyn Hanson. Northdown Publishing 2005 pp 46–51
^ "John Williams – The Height Below (Vinyl) – Discogs". Discogs. 24 September 1973.
^ Numerous editions of German Playboy Magazine 1974-1994. Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Munich
^ Hasted, Michael (1980). "On His Work as an Independent Surrealist Painter". Leonardo. 13 (3): 186–191. doi:10.2307/1577815. JSTOR 1577815. S2CID 191369892.
^ "Europe's Book Towns". transitionsabroad.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
^ A THEATRE FOR ALL SEASONS by Michael Hasted, Jeremy Mills Publishing Ltd., England. September 2011
^ https://www.waterstones.com/author/michael-hasted/296868 ^{[bare URL]}
^ "Theatre review: The Dock Brief". 15 October 2014.
^ "THE DOCK BRIEF at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham". 15 October 2014.
^ https://stagetalkmagazine.com/
^ FeedARead, December 2014
^ https://artstalkmagazine.nl/

External links

[1] "The cast of 'You'll Come to Love Your Sperm Test' at the Traverse". 10 March 2004.

[2] "One Good Turn". IMDb.

[3] "Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO (TV Movie 2012) – IMDb". IMDb.

[4] Hoggin' the Page by Martyn Hanson. Northdown Publishing 2005 pp 46–51

[5] "John Williams – The Height Below (Vinyl) – Discogs". Discogs. 24 September 1973.

[6] Numerous editions of German Playboy Magazine 1974-1994. Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Munich

[7] Hasted, Michael (1980). "On His Work as an Independent Surrealist Painter". Leonardo. 13 (3): 186–191. doi:10.2307/1577815. JSTOR 1577815. S2CID 191369892.

[8] "Europe's Book Towns". transitionsabroad.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

[9] A THEATRE FOR ALL SEASONS by Michael Hasted, Jeremy Mills Publishing Ltd., England. September 2011

[10] ttps://www.waterstones.com/author/michael-hasted/296868 ^{[bare URL]}

[11] "Theatre review: The Dock Brief". 15 October 2014.

[12] "THE DOCK BRIEF at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham". 15 October 2014.

[13] ttps://stagetalkmagazine.com/

[14] FeedARead, December 2014

[15] ttps://artstalkmagazine.nl/

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PROFILPELAJAR.COM

Michael Hasted

Early life

Music career

Artistic career

Public collections owning pictorial works

Selected bibliography

References

External links

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