Qualifications
2007, Master of Fine Arts (Research), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
2003, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours First Class), School of Art, Hobart University of Tasmania
1998, Associate Diploma of Music, Australian Music Examinations Board
Solo Exhibitions
2012, Our Frozen Moment, Performance Space, Sydney (upcoming)
2012, We Are Made of Stardust, Art HK 12, courtesy Anna Pappas Gallery, Hong Kong (upcoming)
2011, We Are Made of Stardust, Boxcopy, Brisbane
2011, I would bring you the stars, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2010, Persistent Optimism, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2009, Snowdrift, MOP Projects, Sydney
2007, Constructing Space: Experiments in Light, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2007, Cloud Field, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
2006, Raining Room (Diamond Dust), Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2002, Between the Cracks (Recent Explorations in Sugar), Republic Gallery, Hobart
2002, (h)ours<e> (in Collaboration with Benjamin Wright), Entrepot Gallery, Hobart
Group Exhibitions
2011, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney
2011, Korean International Art Fair, courtesy of Anna Pappas Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2011, Octopus 11: The Matter of Air, curated by Jacqueline Dougherty, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2011, Spectacle.Obstacle, curated by SuperKaleidoscope, Westspace, Melbourne
2011, Unchained Melodies, curated by Danae Valenza, Wardlow Art Residence, Melbourne
2011, Rules of Play, curated by Kathryn Gray, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2011, The Feeling Will Pass, curated by Brianna Munting and Georgie Meagher, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2011, Free Fall, curated by John A Douglas, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
2011, Spectacle/Obstacle, curated by SuperKaleidoscope, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2011, A Stock Exchange, curated by Amelia Groom, Imperial Panda Festival, Sydney
2010, A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes (White), Curated by Kim Fasher, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2010, Rules of Play, Curated by Kathryn Gray, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna, Austria
2010, 5 Jahre Linda, Gallery Linda, Hamburg, Germany
2010, No Risk Too Great, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2010, Urban/Landscape, Curated by Iriz-a-Maz, Gallery Linda, Hamburg, Germany
2010, Draught, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
2010, Michaela Gleave and Lena Obergfell, Watch This Space, Alice Springs
2010, Staff Show, See Street Gallery, Sydney
2009, Primavera 09, Curated by Jeff Khan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2009, Breathing Space, Curated by Brendan Penzer, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
2009, Snow Show, Curated by Emily Fitzgerald, East Sydney Doctors
2009, Unto the Breach (Dear Friends), Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2009, Save Firstdraft, fundraiser exhibition and auction, hosted by LIz Ann McGregor, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2009, Hello, ESP Gallery, Sydney
2009, Kimbriki, EcoForum 09, Australian Technology Park, Sydney
2009, Game is Good, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2009, Life of Staff, See Street Gallery, Sydney
2009, The Ice Palace, The Red Rattler, Sydney
2008, Membrane, Next Wave Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2008, Runway - Conversations, curated by Anneke Jaspers, publication launch, ICAN, Sydney
2008, Cash and Carry, MOP Projects, Sydney
2008, Single Poster Seeks Same, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2008, Salút, See Street Gallery, Sydney
2008, Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, Crissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
2008, By George! Art and About Laneway Festival, Sydney
2007, Shelf Life, Curated by Nicholas Vickers, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2007, Vive Le Bonheur!, Curated by Cecelia Huynh, Workshop Showroom, Sydney
2007, Square Dance, Firstdraft, Sydney
2007, Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, At the Vanishing Point, Sydney
2007, Raise High the Roof Beam, BUS Gallery, Melbourne
2007, From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come), Curated by Elizabeth Reidy, Presented by ½ Doz., Chauvel
Cinema,Sydney
2006, Better Than It Really Is, INFLIGHT Art, Hobart
2006, Red Wall Gallery Launch, Red Wall Gallery, Hobart
2005, Are we there yet? (The Sublime Project), Curated by Christine Bradburn and Alicia Ritson, Phatspace, Sydney
2004, Hatched, National Graduate Survey Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth
2003, BFA (hons), Plimsol Gallery, School of Art, Hobart
2003, Kylie’s Dog Dreams of Paradise, Curated by Caroline Rose, INFLIGHT Art, Hobart
2002, Down the Garden Path, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart
2002, Global House Project, Curated by Shaun Wilson, Various Site-specific Locations, New York and San Francisco, USA
2002, Brush Strokes, Side Space, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2002, Inside-Out, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2001, Transistor, Entrepot Galleries, Hobart
2001, Shoe Box, Entrepot Galleries, Hobart
Awards/Grants/Residencies
2011, New Work Grant - Established, Australia Council for the Arts
2011, Finalist - Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship
2011, Short Response Grant, Arts NSW
2011, Finalist - Maddock’s Art Prize
2011, Artspace, Studio Residency, Sydney
2011, Eckersley’s Art Material Prize
2011, Janet Holmes à Court Artists’ Grant, NAVA
2011, FraserStudios, Studio Residency, Sydney
2010, The Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Grant
2010, NES Artist’s Residency, Iceland
2010, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Residency, Berlin, Germany
2010, Watch This Space, Residency, Alice Springs
2010, Fraserstudios, Studio Residency, Sydney
2009, New Work Grant - Emerging, Australia Council for the Arts
2009, Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship
2009, Artstart Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2009, Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards, Visual Arts - National Finalist
2009, Arts Project Grant, City of Melbourne
2009, NAVA Marketing Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts
2009, Firstdraft Emerging Curator Grant, Firstdraft Gallery
2007, Highly Commended, Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize
2005, Australian Postgraduate Association Scholarship
2006, GAS Grant, CoFA Student Association Arts Presentation Grant
2002, Dean’s Role of Excellence, University of Tasmania
2001, Dean’s Role of Excellence, University of Tasmania
2001, Admitted to The International Golden Key Honour Society
Curatorial Projects
2009, Game is Good, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2007, Square Dance, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2006, 20LOVE, Festival Program, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
2002, Inside-Out, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
2001, Shoe Box, Entrepot Galleries, Hobart
Commissions
2012, Bay 19, Performance Space at the Carriage Works, Sydney
2008, ‘Magic Maker’, The Whale Chorus, directed by Janie Gibson, PACT Theatre, Sydney
Citations
2011, Damian McDermott, STVDIO, SBS Foxel Art Break, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iegx4sXiUfk
2011, Rachel Fuller, The Feeling Will Pass, Runway, issue 20, p72-75
2011, Robert Nelson, Exhibition does not take air lightly, The Age, September 21, p17
2011, Megan Garrett-Jones, Spectacle/Obstacle, DAS500, 04 June
2011, Anna Newbold, Cloud House, http://inkblotreview.blogspot.com
2011, Meredith Birrell, Spectacle/Obstacle, The Art Life, May 6
2011, Lucy Carroll, People to Watch 2011, The Sydney Magazine, Issue 94, p42
2010, Cherry Bombs, Trolls and Low-fat Yoghurt, Michaela Gleave - Featured Artist, NAVA Quarterly, December 2010
2010, Gill Samuel, The Evolution of Talent, Incubate Magazine, Issue 5, 2010, p14 - 18
2010, Wall Work, Michaela Gleave and Kate Mitchell, featured artists, runway magazine, Issue16, p58-63
2010, Mark Chipperfield, People to Watch 2010, The Sydney Magazine, Issue 82, p45
2010, Katrina Israel, Ones to Watch in 2010, Harper’s Bazaar, January/February 2010, p178
2010, Incubate, Ed. Jo Bosben, Pub. CoFA, UNSW, ISBN: 1883 1826, p13
2010, Max Olijnk, Wall Work, Space Visual Art, The Age, May 12, p16
2010, Artists at Work, Centralian Advocate, Alice Springs, January 9, p13
2010, Box Office - Michaela Gleave, The Age (Melbourne) Magazine, June 2010, p80
2009.Conspirators: A Snapshot of Sydney’s Creative Community, Ed. Kate Jinx, Pub. Concrete Playground,
2010.p62-63
2009, Arts and Events, Vogue Living Australia, Nov/Dec 09, pg 90
2009, Talia Linz, Primavera 09, feature, Runway Magazine, issue 15: Lies, pg 80
2009, Lucy Johannsohn, All About the Adventure, Article, The Advocate, December 5, pg 42
2009, Josephine Skinner, New Growth, New Directions: Primavera 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art, Review,
RealTime, issue #93, Oct-Nov 09, p53
2009,Tracey Clement, Mixed-Media Messages, Review, Metro Art, The Sydney Morning Herald, pg 14, October
2-8 2009
2009, Becky Wilson, Tangible Connections, Feature, OUTthere, Rex Airways Magazine, Spring/summer 09
2009, Primavera, East Side Radio Arts Program, Interview
2009, Eddie Sharp, Unto the Breach (Dear Friends), Review, Canvas Arts Program, FBI Radio
2009, Kate Scardifield, Focus on NSW, NAVA Quarterly, March 09, p13
2009, Game is Good, Canvas Arts Program, FBI Radio Interview, Presenter: Matthew Levinson
2009, Josephine Tovery, Game is Good, Open Gallery, The Sydney Morning Herald, January 17-18 2009
2009, Rachel Elliot-Jones, Game is Good, Two-Thousand Magazine, December 12
2008, Michaela Gleave, En Plein Air - Tessa Rapaport and Karl Logge, Catalogue
essay, Next Wave Festival Publication, July 2008
2008, Re: View - Reflections on ATVP April 2007 - March 2008, Ed. Brendan Penzer,
Pickafight Books, ISBN 9780780494006
2007, Michaela Gleave, Constructing Space: Experiments in Light, Feature Article,
College Voice, Volume 5, Issue 1, Winter 2007
2007, Generation Green, Postgraduate Feature, Sydney Morning Herald, April 22
2007, Good Weekend Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, May 12 2007
2006, The Art Life, Raining Room (Diamond Dust), April, 2006
2005, Christine Bradburn and Alica Ritson, Are We There Yet (The Sublime Project), Catalogue Essay, June
2005, ISBN 0-646-44990-7
2004, Briony Downes, Undiscovered Artists: Michaela Gleave, Feature, Australian Art Collector, Issue 28, April –
June, 2004, p 95
2001, Lucien Simons, Transistor, Review, Festival Magazine, Hobart, Tasmania,
2001, pg 7
2001, Anthony Curtis, Art Reviews, Review, Togatus, University of Tasmania Student Magazine, Issue no. 8, 2001, p 30
Symposia/Lectures
2009, Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2009, One Way or Another: Artist Self-Organisation in NSW, Symposium, Artspace, Sydney
2009, Breathing Space, Forum Presentation, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
2009, Guest Lecture, Alexandria Public School, Sydney, Program coordinator: Sam Whittingham
2008, Structural Integrity, Forum presentation, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, hosted by Anna Tweedale
2008, Next Wave Tsunami, Forum presentation, Quarter Bred #5, PACT Theatre, Sydney
2007, Emerging: Artist-Run-Initiatives, Public Seminar, Professional Practice Program, National Art School, Sydney
2006, Constructing Space: Experiments in Light, School of Art Research Seminar,College of Fine Arts
2001, Art In Zero Gravity, Public Lecture, School of Art, Hobart, University of Tasmania
Collections
Art Bank, Australia
Private Collections: Australia, Germany, UK
Michaela Gleave is an artist currently based in Sydney, Australia. Working across a range of media including installation, performance, photography and video, Michaela’s practice centers on the physicality of sensory perception and the ways in which we understand and respond to the world around us. Executed as a series of experiments, her often-temporal works question our relationship to space, matter and time, involving natural phenomena and tricks of perception within the context of the systems and structures that shape contemporary existence.
Michaela was born in Central Australia in 1980 before moving to North-West Tasmania as a child. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours First Class) from the School of Art, Hobart, University of Tasmania. She has been awarded numerous grants and prizes, including a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship and Australia Council for the Arts New Work Grants (Emerging and Established), and has been a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, the SOYA Awards, and the 2011 Maddock’s Art Prize. Michaela has participated in residencies in Berlin, Iceland and Central Australia. Her recent exhibitions include: ‘I would bring you the stars’ (solo) at Anna Pappas Gallery (2011), Melbourne; The Korean International Art Fair, Seoul (2011); ‘Octopus 11: The Matter of Air’ at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2011); ‘A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes (White)’ at the Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (2011); and ‘Primavera 09’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2009).