Michele Elliot is a visual artist, educator and occasional writer based in the Illawarra whose practice spans textiles, sculpture, installation and drawing. Her artworks are material explorations in relation to human connectivity, mapping and memory. She has been exhibiting across Australia for over three decades, as well as in India and Singapore.
Michele is an experienced teacher at a tertiary level in drawing, textiles and sculpture. She runs textiles workshops locally, in regional NSW and interstate. Michele works with community and facilitates Tender Funeral’s Sewing Circle as part of their After Care program. She has assisted families to create rituals and remembrances for their deceased persons. Part of this practice of care is her 'shroud making workshops : a day of cloth and conversation', which she runs on a regular basis, locally and interstate.
Michele has been the recipient of state and federal funding for
several projects and residencies. In 2022, she was awarded an arts
project grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to research,
develop and present new work at the Wollongong Art Gallery. Her exhibition - what is held, is here - opens on 1st June and runs till 25th August, 2024.
Her artwork is held in collections at Artbank, University of New South Wales Library, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA and private collections