Pace-sigge

Michael Pace-Sigge
(Michael Thomas Leonce Pace-Sigge nee Sigge) is German-born and Liverpool-based. Without ever having ever received formal arts or photography training, passion for the picture made him a self-trained semi-professional. Michael seems to have the right eye for the right place.
His work can be found on .
Michael Pace-Sigge is also a PhD Student at Liverpool University where he is currently studying the lexical properties of Scouse.
In other words: he is a corpus linguist who has a particular interest in the properties of Spoken Liverpool English. Some of his research can be found under – [http://www.m4pictures.co.uk/contact.html#English_Language_Research_]
Should all this be to heavy going – he also writes some short stories. He has done so since he was eight, but he has grown up now: he no longer writes in German, he tries English -
Apart from all that, Michael was born in the tiny spa of Salzkotten on 20.November 1970 and he claims the ancient medieval-looking Westphalian town of Soest as his town of origin.
He is also ex-married (to Christina Pace-Sigge, nee Christina Pace Butler) and the natural father of two daughters, Zoë (1994) and Larissa (2004).

M Pace-Sigge' s Artists' statement

"I fell in love with the city of Liverpool the moment I first arrived here (coming through the railway tunnel from the Wirral). I think, before, I had the potential to be interested in culture. Now, I cannot get enough of it and, at the same time, I always know that Liverpool has much much more to over than I could ever take in.

There are the performing arts: in the first week of my stay, I went to the Playhouse Theatre, and I kept going back ever after. I cannot remember how many budding and performing scriptwriters and actors I met since. I was taken aback by the visual attacks that modern art gave me at the Tate Liverpool and astonished to find such a wealth of paintings in the Walker Art Gallery (the second largest collection in the UK outside London). The Walker is part of National Museums Merseyside and I used to work there and the in Maritime Museum. Little surprise that I savoured what I was offered.

Whereas before I might have occasionally have visited a gallery or a museum, the wealth Liverpool has to offer inspires me to take visitors, friends - anybody really - to see and be impressed. And I have not even mentioned the live music yet!

So, I soaked up much of the culture Liverpool has to offer like the sea-breeze that fills your lungs down by the Mersey. Over the past ten years, I have worked (and continue to work occasionally) in the Everyman and Playhouse , Neptune and Unity Theatres . These days I am almost every night in the gorgeous Philharmonic Hall , exposed to a large variety of music. Working closely with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra gives me unique access to observe the members at work – during rehearsals as well as during performances outside the Hall.
Last but not least, after volunteering in the Williamson's Tunnels and the Western Approaches HQ museums, I have also a reasonable insight in Liverpool’s later history.

Yet, day after day, I am still astonished what I discover when I look around me when turning a corner. Liverpool offers an incredible wealth of sights and impressions - and I try to re-form them in two dimensions.

Obviously, I am very biased toward Liverpool motives. However, it has become the ideal training ground that shaped and sharpened my perception over years. Consequently, wherever I go now, I am much more aware of my environment. Default thinking is now to try to figure out positions to take the ideal picture."

Sources: http://www.m4pictures.co.uk/statement.htm

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