Michelle Shearer
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Melbourne borne mixed media artist whose work has included painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, digital image making, animation and warm glass slumping and fusing.  

I see myself as a storyteller whose work reflects upon a life lived and navigated by the human compass of emotion and experience.   The narrative is sometimes literal, though often symbolic and sometimes a mere phantasm, always aimed to engage my audience through a sense of recognition of those things that are familiar and which arc back to our shared human experience combined with the unique and intriguing individual perspective of the storyteller. 
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I have always been enchanted by the figments that appeared in the illustrated story books I was given as a child.  My work current splinters into two main arenas, one is the whimsical creation of faery – creatures who seem to form and reveal themselves as I twist and shape the materials in my workshop.  The other is the exploration of the narrative of “Self” which I ponder and continually revisit, through my ever changing reflection on my own 'stories of self' depicted through "The Traveler".


Education / Arts Training
Master Visual Arts                                                                                         2015  Federation University, Vic. Aust.                                                                   
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - Comp. Mediated Art & Multi Media  
   1998-2001
Victoria University, Vic. Aust.
Cert. IV - Training and Assessment  (TAE40110)                                         2014
SW TAFE - Warrnambool, Vic. Aust.
Cert. IV - Training and Assessment (TAA40104)                                       2009
Ascent TAFE - Melbourne, Vic. Aust.
Cert IV - Small Business Management (BSB4041)                                     2008
Australian Business Development Center, Warrnambool Vic. Aust.

Professional Development / Experience
Community Arts Development Officer 
Warrnambool City Council
2021
Specialist Kindergarten Art Teacher - ESL Environment
Wuxi & Hangzhou, China
2017-2019
Corangamite Arts Inc. -  President /Secretary                      
2014/15, 2015/16
Set Design and Decoration - "The Addams Family Musical"                    2015
Camperdown Theater Company Inc.
Guest Judge - Mortlake Arts                                                                          2016
Guest Judge - Camperdown College VCE Arts Prize                                 2014
Guest Judge - Warrnambool Art Show (Rotary)                                        2014
Guest Judge - Warrnambool and Dist. Art Society Annual Awards         2014
Master Class - "small castings big intentions"  with David Reekie          2014
Set Design and Decoration - "Joseph"                                                         2014
Camperdown Theater Company Inc.
Set Concept and Design - "Hairspray"                                                         2013
Camperdown Theater Company Inc.
F-Project Inc. - Vice President                                                                  2011/12
SW TAFE - Session Teacher - Arts Department                             2009-2013
Workshop Instructor - Sand and Fire - Fused Glass/Various     2007 onward
Silver Smithing and Silver Casting workshops CAE Melb.                       2006
Glass Flame work and Bead Making with Pauline Delaney                     2005
Guest Artist - Heart Beat Festival - Melton Vic.                                         2002
Life Sculpture and bronze casting with Matcham Skipper                1993/4/5

Awards / Grants / Residencies
Visiting Artist - Camperdown College - Small Project
                                  2015
Visiting Artist - St Patrick's School Camperdown - Major Project                2014
"Artist in Schools" Grant Recipient - Port Fairy Consolidated School      2013
Department of Education and Early Development and Arts Vic Partnership
Visiting Artist - Port Fairy Consolidated School - Small Project(s) 2010/11/12/13

MtSF Emerging Artist Program - Solo Exhibition Recipient                      2012
Mission to Sea Farers & Wold Trade Center Emerging Artist Program
Visiting Artist - St Patrick's School Port Fairy - Major Project                       2010

Selected Collections / Commissions
Victoria University Collection  - St Albans Campus Vic Aust.                2000
(Seated Nude, - Oil on Canvas, 1998)

BAE Systems Australia - Abbotsford Facility - Corporate Mural           2001
(Muse of Flight - Acrylic on prepared wall)

Powercore - Great South Coast Regional Business Awards                    2008
(10 + 1 awards in slumped and fused glass)


Event Organiser / Curator for Exhibitions
"Cart Load of Art"                                                                              2015/16
Corangamite Arts Inc. Members Exhibition and Sale - Court House Camperdown
"Insert Angel Here"                                                                                    2014/15
Installation - 6 Artists, 10 Locations - Camperdown Vic
"Inspired by Burns Art Prize"                                                                         2015
Corangamite Arts Inc. Initiative - Court House Camperdown Vic.
"Sport Meets Art"                                                                                            2014
Corangamite Arts Inc. Initiative - Court House Camperdown Vic.
"Essence of Environment"                                                                              2013

 Artist in Schools Project - Group Exhibition of Artworks in Glass 


Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
"Flight of Fancy"                                                      2014
Sand and Fire Studio Gallery
"The Ocean Said to me..."                                     2012
Mission to Seafarers Vic - WTC, Docklands Melb.
"Inspired by Sea"                                                              2011
Sand and Fire Studio Gallery

"Digital Heart"                                                        2002
Blue Stone Cottage - Willows Hist. Cntr Melton Vic.
"IM"                                                                          2001
Steps Gallery, Carlton Vic.

Juried Exhibitions
"South West Int' Women's Day Prize"                2016
"Mage"                                                                     2013

Mansfield Art Glass Exposition (Finalist )
"She who seeks the truth"                                    2002
Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Vic
"She who must be obeyed"                                  2001
Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong, Vic      

Selected Group Exhibitions     
"Insert Angel Here" Installation                        2014/15
10 locations around Camperdown Vic
"Animalia" 
                                                                            2013
 Camperdown Court House Vic
"BSG" - Small Works Prize                                     2012
Brunswick Street Gallery, Melb. Vic
"Explorations 09"                                                   2009
 Gaffa Gallery, Syd. NSW & Gillford Lane Gallery Fitz. Vic
"Linden Post Card Show"                                     2002
Linden Gallery, St.Kilda, Vic
"Nikon Summer Salon"                                          2001
Center for Contemporary Photography, Melb. Vic
"On Exit Frame" - VU Graduating Exhibition     2000
Gabriel Gallery, Footscray, Vic

"Summer Salon"                                                     1999
Centre for Contemporary Photography Melb. Vic

NEW AND CURRENT WORK
My new and current work is being developed and exclusively displayed at the Hidden Gardens of Halcyon Bounty
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