Bundanon

Michaela works across sculpture, contemporary jewellery and performance, with her history and practice in contemporary dance informing her material processes. Her work is an exploration of felt experience, garnered through the deeply embodied relationships we form with the natural world, and their evolution within the artistic encounter. Working in highly explorative ways to develop material languages that are nuanced and sensory, Michaela investigates the qualities, tones and temporalities that constitute the intimate fabric of relations between the sensing being and their environment, and the places of resonance between natural and cultural ecologies.

Michaela exhibits both locally and internationally, and is the recipient of numerous awards. Her  work is held in a number of private and public collections. She has a Bachelor of Design (Honours) from UTS, a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1st Class Honours) in Gold & Silversmithing, and a PhD in Art from RMIT.

In Residence at Bundanon

My time at Bundanon will involve the weaving together of my movement practice and my visual arts practice, to precipitate and explore a continuity between land, body and material. In the dance studio I will develop an archive of sensorial and movement landscapes as a response to my immersions in the local natural environment. I will work with the energetic resonance of this in the gold and silversmithing studio, in the creation of substances and material forms, observing how these two modes of processing and expression might relate to and inform one another, and the new possibilities this offers each practice.