Michael Hasted

Michael Hasted (born 3 December 1945, Bristol, England) Artist, Writer and Photographer

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. He turned down a place at the Bristol Old Vic Drama School and over the next few years worked 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 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 in Edinburgh in 1964.

He became involved in the music business in the mid 60s and was part of the crowd at the legendary 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 Jeff Lynne album. He was responsible for, and hosted, a virtually forgotten solo gig at Cousins by Van Morrison. He worked with Morrison and his group Them as publicity manager until their split.

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 etc. etc. and did sleeves for, among others, The Groundhogs "Scratchin the Surface", Mike Batt "Schizophonia" and classical guitarist John Williams"The Height Below".

In the early 70s he also took up illustration and painting. He produced over 300 book jackets and magazine illustrations including for Playboy with whom he worked for 20 years.

His paintings have been exhibited extensively in Europe, Japan and America and are in public collections in England, France, Greece and USA.

In the mid 80s he went to live in France and from 1996 until his return to England in 2003, ran The English Bookshop in Montolieu [1], the book village in the south of France. He is currently writing the history of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham as well asworking as a freelance journalist and photographer.

Public collections

• Arkansas Arts Centre Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
• Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, USA
• Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA, USA
• Museé d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, France
• Polaroid (UK) Ltd.,

Bibliography

• A THEATRE FOR ALL SEASONS Michael Hasted, Jeremy Mills Publishing Ltd., England. September 2011
• Novum Gebrauchsgraphik (Munich) November 1973 pp. 28–33
• Munchner Merkur 19 Dezember 1975
• Graphis (Zürich) Spring 1978 p. 539
• Stern (Hamburg) 30 November 1978 p. 162
• Novum Gebrauchsgraphik April 1979 pp. 41–50
• Munchner Merkur 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
• Novum Gebrauchsgraphik January 1993 pp. 44–47
• Hoggin the Page Northdown Publishing 2005 pp 46–51
• Front Cover Allan Powers, Mitchell Beazley 2006 p. 97

External links

• http://everymanbook.com
• http://www.kevinwalsh.co.uk/francebooks.htm
• http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/instInfo/inst/12946/lang/1
• http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/179062/lang/1
• http://transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0203/booktowns.shtml
• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/article885008.ece
• http://www.zdom.com/artistpainterpricesH8/HASTEDMichael.htm
• http://www.epilog.de/Bibliothek/Alien-Contact/Beitrag/AC28_Gesicht_der_Buecher.htm

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Name	Hasted, Michael
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Date of birth	3 December 1945
Place of birth	Bristol, UK
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