Description
The artworks in the Ash, Mud & Tears collection were produced for an exhibition of the same name – a collaboration with textile artist, Jude White exhibited at the Northern Regional Community Gallery, Ballina, NSW in 2023.
‘Shrine to Your Thoughts & Prayers’ is a small sculpture work from found and reclaimed materials including timber from a dining table and scrap metal salvaged after the 2022 floods in her hometown. The work evokes images of sacred memorials to past heroes and is a specific reaction to the repeated hollow rhetoric espoused by many politicians who remained unaffected by the floods and fires and reluctant to take action to lessen the threat of future climate induced events.
Michelle has an eye for unconventional beauty, being drawn to the worn and scuffed and rusty. Silversmithing and jewellery design were her first areas of arts training and so Michelle brings that focus on the smallest details to her 2D and 3D work.
