Mike Pratt (b.1987 Seaham, County Durham, UK) lives and works in Whitley Bay, UK. He graduated from Northumbria University in 2009 where he was awarded the Paul Mason Sculpture Prize. In 2014 he completed a two-year postgraduate programme at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and in 2016 he won the Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst - the prestigious Royal Award for Modern Painting in Holland.