Bundanon

Michaela Gleave is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bediagal/Wangal country, Sydney, Australia.

Gleave’s conceptual practice spans numerous mediums and platforms including digital and online works, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. Her projects question the nature of reality and our innate relationship to time, matter, and space, focussing particularly on the changing intersections between art, science, and society.

Gleave’s work has been presented extensively across Australia as well as in Germany, Greece, The United Kingdom, Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Iceland, the United States and Mexico. She has developed major performance and installation works for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Bristol Biennial, UK; TarraWarra Art Museum, Melbourne; Carriageworks, Sydney; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne among others. Gleave has been awarded residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan, and CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia.

In Residence at Bundanon

Gleave will develop an ambitious new video project that combines documentary, archival and found imagery in an investigation into the immensity of time and space. Immersed in the natural environment and dark skies surrounding Bundanon, Gleave will explore concepts of time on a cosmological scale, seeking to decentralise hierarchies of knowledge and consider alternate forms of understanding, including astronomical, geological, biological, historical, and cultural. Evoking a multitude of sensations and rhythms, the work is envisaged as an awe-inspiring journey through the depths of existence.