Michael Leigh

Male

Cheshire

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:: 1967
My Website (without http://):: http://a1mailart.blogspot.com/
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:: How else would I get to meet so many fascinating people? I enjoy getting postcards, envelopes, projects, objects, etc. through the letter flap. I have met some very nice people over the years through the mail including my dear wife.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail): wastedpapiers@yahoo.co.uk

Comment Wall:

Shivablack

Welcome Michael!

Jan 30, 2010
Peter Dowker

Hi Michael,
I'm not in the UK but welcome here anyway.:o)

Jan 30, 2010
Michael Leigh

Hi Peter, Thanks . Nice to see you here!

Jan 30, 2010
gandha

Yes of course, what do I need to do?

Jan 31, 2010
TIZIANA BARACCHI

LIMITE, SCAMBIO, SEGNO
LIMIT, EXCHANGE, SIGN
A tribute for the city of Portogruaro through a project involving art through mail. The keywords chosen as the theme are the motif of its foundation, joined in a common flow.

Limit
border between earth and water,
the river harbor and the trade routes,
the channels and the gardens of the palaces,
a constant reference to a change in system, material and colour.

Exchange
not only of goods but also of colours and scents,
artistic and architectural influences,
mutual knowledge, therefore culture.

Sign
a condition of consent expressed in gesture, the conclusion of an agreement,
a trace superimposed on many others:
whose meaning is beyond the sum of the parts.

Project by Rizoo Group, Tiziana Baracchi and Pro Loco di Portogruaro
Format and dimension of work:
square of maximum size 21 X 21 cm
No e-mail

No returns, no jury, no fee, no sales

Exhibition in Portogruaro, 2010
documentation online: www.rizoo.altervista.org
info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com – aurogentile@tiscali.it

Deadline to be received March 31, 2010

Send to:

Proloco di Portogruaro
via Cavour 33
30026 Portogruaro (VE) - ITALY

Jan 31, 2010
Diana Ali

Sure, sorry I'm new where's the link to join?
Thanks

Jan 31, 2010
Elizabeth Mary Dismorr

Thankyou so much for sending me a postcard, i recieved it today. I sent you something off this morning so you'll be getting it in the next day or so. :)

Feb 4, 2010
Elizabeth Mary Dismorr

Haha! I watched a bit with martin amis, but then dumbed down about and changed over to the one show! Ha!

Feb 4, 2010
Mail Art Martha

hi Michael,
Sorry I have been so long in answering, lots of problems but the worst is that i am very reluctant to join any more groups because i cannot give them the attention i would like. In this one, IUOMA, for instance, I have not been able to join in any discussions for lack of time. Also if I join yours I will have to join everybody's and already I had to refuse a few. Since this started it is amazing how many have appeared. So I hope you understand and forgive me.
how is the family? Archie must be at university if not married by now. Love to all of you.
Martha

Feb 6, 2010
Samuel Montalvetti

Quiero una copia del sellito estampilla de la bicicleta!!!!

Feb 8, 2010
Lee Jackson

hi michael, thanks for the mail i got today, funny and inspiring, thank you. I am putting a booklett of short poems together and hope to do a mailing soon. lee

Feb 13, 2010
treena

hi michael yes it is a bit cold isnt it, glad you like the paper plane. im making you something but its taking me quite a while but ill get it out to you soon take care say hi to the family ,treena

Feb 22, 2010
David Aronson

It was the late 90s, so I'm not surprised you don't remember. No biggie. :-)

Feb 23, 2010
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

Hello Michael,
'Just was intrigued by your collection of rubber stamps...and is that an "Alice-in-Wonderland" one I spotted? Very "in" now with the Johnny Depp movie and all, and I have such a vibre with that tale, I even have a "facsimile" from Lewis Carroll's original hand written manuscript ("Alice's Adventures Under Ground").

Anyway, you have me thinking of searching the flea market at Monasteraki the next time I am in Athens. Surely there would be old rubber stamps there?
See you in the mail...I shall make the paper bird/planes and send it off before this month ends!
All the best,
Katerina

Mar 15, 2010
treena

hi michael
car boot at weaverham too this weekend i have been informed will you go to both?

Mar 17, 2010
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

'Glad the three bi-planes and their mail art arrived...
no delays at Heathrow :-) Have fun "flying"!

Mar 22, 2010
Claudia Ligorria

HOLA MICHAEL
TE ENVIO CONVOCATORIA DE ARTE CORREO/MAIL ART
"Mi lugar en el Mundo"
www.artecorreo-claudialigorria.blogspot.com

ESPERO PARTICIPES
SALUDOS DESDE ARGENTINA

Mar 24, 2010
ivana rezek

Memorable Movie Moments

What is your favorite quote from a movie? Share it with the rest of us and illustrate it :)
If you can't decide on an actual quote, you can also share a particular scene or even make an 'alternative' poster for your favorite movie.
You can also add a short explanation about why this particular quote/scene/movie is important to you.

Deadline: May 31st
Size and technique free, no fee, no jury, no returns.
Works will be documented on the blog and exhibited in a venue in Sarajevo in July, during the Sarajevo Film Festival when the entire town lives for the movies.
If you provide your e-mail address, we will e-mail you the photos from the exhibition.
Mail-art is hardly known in Bosnia, so please contributel and help us make a big mail-art show :)

Mail your works to:

Nataša Stanišić
Asima Ferhatovića 1
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Apr 6, 2010
Paulo Jorge Gonçalves

http://paulojorgegc.blogspot.com/
divulgação do meu blog

Apr 14, 2010
ABED MALHAS

ALLAH GOD’S DEAREST CREATION ON EARTH R HUMANS
CHILDREN are the assurance of OUR Continuity & defiantly include genius
CASA is initiating
NOBEL PRIZE 4 CHILDREN

PLEASE

ALL WHAT IT TAKES

IS A SIMPLE EMAIL
in UR own words

WE need to persuade THE NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE
( info@nobel.se ; weboffice@nobel.se )

to include CHILDREN IN THE NOBEL PRIZE

" shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind " Nobel Will
WE believe including all the World Children ( more than 2 Billion Children )
in the greatest Human Brain acknowledgement ( Nobel Prize ) is the greatest benefit 2 mankind
www.casaart.org

Please join us ( free ) as a
Supporter ,Sponsor , Artist Donor
Please relay to all
(children , students , schools ,academics ,
artists , museum ,gallery , art outlets ,
sponsors , decision maker ,celebrity , media
education outlet & industry , etc.)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/FAAVM-CASA-Nobel-Prize-for-Children-P...

CASA Founder
ARCHITECT ( AUB ) - INVENTOR – PAINTER – PHOTOGRAPHER
Recipient of 10 International Award
Amman ,Jordan
00 96 2 65 81 59 55
www.casaart.org
amalhas@batelco.jo
ABED MALHAS

May 2, 2010
Chris Reynolds

happy fluxus day every day

May 21, 2010
Samuel Montalvetti

http://estampillasdeartista.blogspot.com/

Jul 18, 2010
Bifidus Jones

I'm a big fan of your work

Nov 13, 2010
Bifidus Jones

I completely understand. I may need a shed soon too. Cheers

Nov 28, 2010
MaryAnne

I feel a real traitor to the cause using this b#*!!# machine!!!
Been up most of the night designing some stamps. Should be ready early next year if al;l goes well. cheers.

Dec 12, 2010
Bifidus Jones

Thanks for the holiday wishes, Michael. Those British rabbits are terrific.

Dec 16, 2010
Susanna Lakner

Dec 20, 2010
MaryAnne

hi there. just this morning i tried an experiment ... mixing ice, gravity and artist in equal quantities. result ... a morning spent at the accident and emergency deptr of local hospital, huge bill for pain killers and no mail art for the forseeable due to fractured bone in right arm. so computors do have a use after all !!!!

Dec 23, 2010
Sean Woodward

Merry Mithras and a Mailart New Year !

Dec 25, 2010
MaryAnne

hi there. i have been sorting through various boxes and found a sheet of stamps you sent me yonks ago. now it is part of mary annes stamp collection and i have posted a scan of it in my photo album. hope you approve ....

Dec 29, 2010
cheryl penn

I'm still waiting for an address :-)

Jan 23, 2011
MaryAnne

glad the postie are still at work. Am busy scanning the newly finished album pages after a busy weekend. They will be in "M<y photos" in a while. Several are yours so you might have a look sometime .... cheers

Feb 22, 2011
Rod Summers / VEC

Hail Michael... for a while there my version of ning couldn't find your version of ning, was this hamsters gnawing at the wheely bin wheel wiring or has the corporation already cancelled that tram? I wait breathless for your enlightenment halo alignment.

thruppences all round and a brandy for my chicken.

Mar 1, 2011
Rod Summers / VEC

sigh, I have to hoover through, the detritus of manic mail-art is scratching the ankles above my bootees alweddy.

Yer got the same addiction, but my drug of choice is finding hidden objects stashed amongst other object less well hiddid.

I have ferry many goon type shows on a USB sticky thingy and pop that inter the usb gaping whole and let the computer play them as randomly chosed, I assume you have the shows, if not I am will-ning to share. on the same stick this morning I was listening to Pete and Dud

Mar 1, 2011
Rod Summers / VEC

We ur d! Again I got an email saying you sent a message but there is no message from you on my page. And I see you not on my fwends list.

About the gallery Lost & Found, I haven't heard of it, not that that means anything but it is below my radar and when I tried to track it down on the web I found nothing.

Mar 17, 2011
Rod Summers / VEC

Ah, now I see it, thanks for sending the link. Amsterdam, that's a long (Dutch) way from here in Limburg and culturally a different planet. You should come and visit us Michael!

Mar 17, 2011
Laurence Roberts

Thanks Mike.

(maybe I could visit your archive, sometime, if ever convenient for you- its sounds aamazing)

best wishes

Laurence.

Mar 29, 2011
Laurence Roberts

Sounds just like me ! :)

Are nt sheds wonderful.

Mar 29, 2011
Henning Mittendorf

Dear Michael,

I embosom you, dear friend!

We must have been in contact from time to time many years up to now.

Hope you and yours are well!

Time runs more quickly and my activities have become slower.

As time goes bye...

Keep in contact and all the best!

HeMi

Mar 30, 2011
Valentine Mark Herman

Bonjour! I like your 'Grandad' "old-fashioned" collage. Here's one I made of my father, when he was in Burma during his WW2 RAF days.

Regards, Val

Apr 5, 2011
MaryAnne

Whats this exhibition you are putting up in Leeds?

Jun 2, 2011
Terry Reid

hi Michael, a reminder if you have not yet responded,

here is an invitation to pARTicipate in the SECREt eXCHANGE exhibitions...pass the invitation on to your friends, and let me know on my page if you will or won't be able to contribute; go to IUoMA Events...or click on the link http://secretexchange.yolasite.com/ thx, Terry Reid, send me a friend request for easier communication

ps
(in facebook it is at :https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000748977585 )

Jun 26, 2011