Profile
And it was
Oil on linen 2008
Michelle's work is represented in both private and public collections in Australia and USA. Her award winning work focuses on humanity, featuring faces, hands, or bodies, with rich colour and a steady gaze from the canvas being fairly consistent motifs.
Her Life Lines series, explores relationships, expectations - the threads of life.
The Paper Dolls series explores the relationship we have with our expectations of life and the future - sometimes from the point of view of an adult looking back on childhood dreams of what life would be like - sometimes from an adults view of what a child should expect for themselves, and other times they can be an exploration of our expectations of ourselves and others as adults.
The 'geisha' girls challenge the viewer to guess what's going on in the mind of the figure - hopefully taking them out of their space and into the painting for a little while - a mini-holiday in some sense to create calm or mischief.
Her Anthropomorphism series focuses on the way people can be animalistic in their behaviour. Anthropomorphism is actually the way we embue the inanimate with personality or feelings, or attribute human feelings and personality to animals. It’s ‘making things human’. These works consider the way we slide sometimes into instinctive, and sometimes not very attractive behaviour.
In creating art, Michelle is mindful that an original work brings its own personality to the environment. She feels that a work should breathe and occupy a space without overpowering it – revealing itself to the viewer gently but surely. Her works are often layered with unusual colours in ways that are both playful yet investigative – allowing her pieces to add a welcome and stimulating dimension to any space.
Michelle is inspired by artists Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman, Sidney Nolan, Edvard Munch, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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For (almost) daily updates and works in progress, visit http://www.michellegiacobello.wordpress.com
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS:
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Gallery 775 - Shoreham Rd, Red Hill - May onwards
Box Hill Rotary Art Show - Thursday 10 July - Sunday 13 July
2008
Linden gallery postcard show (Feb)
Life lines - louey and lane gallery (solo show) - March
Canterbury Art Show - May
Brunswick Street Gallery - small works show - June
Box Hill Rotary Art Show - July
Brighton Art Show - June
Bayside Art Show - August
Caulfield Professional Artist Show - August
Mont Albert Art Show - October
Contemporary Art Society Show - December
2007
Tusk Gallery - Selected works
Linden Gallery - Postcard Show
San Remo Art Show - encouragement award.
Love Generation - Frankston Arts Centre (2 person show)
Canterbury Art Show
Ripponlea Art Auction
Castleman Gallery - Selected works
Brighton Art Show
Bayside Art Show
Caulfield Professional Artists Show
ArtFusion Gallery - Phillip Island, Group Show
The future and each other, Gallery 775 (solo show)
Mt Eliza Art Show - Selected works
Momentum, Loco (2 person show)
Contemporary Arts Society Show - Selected works
The Birds (solo show) Hudson
2006
Shortlisted for international illustration competition 'Life of Pi' run by Times newspaper and Canongate Publishers
Winner - image projecting positive mental health - work now in Cunningham Dax (public) collection
The Body Show - Brunswick St Gallery
Bayside Art Show
Selected works - Rocket Gallery
Morphe II
Mt Eliza Art Show
Art Auction - Rocket Gallery
Burnley Harbour - Contemporary Art Society Show
2005
Selected works - Anna Blatman Gallery