Michelle Harvey Art
I create expressive and abstracted landscapes with a connection to place, feelings and nostalgia.
Born in Wagga, the countryside is more than a physical home, it’s the home of my heart and provided a childhood filled with long road trips and family adventures. Now based in Melbourne, my work is created as an intuitive response to imagined landscapes that exist in my memories. Always inspired by travel, every sunset, every new country, every change of season, every long road trip, every view across every lake I’ve ever seen all live in a bank of memories built since childhood and my landscapes, although created without reference, all feel familiar.
Each painting is richly layered with acrylics and mixed media. Highly nuanced with barely noticed details buried in the layers. They honour the feelings of being in these places and noticing the ever-changing and fleeting details. Layers provide a groundwork, a foundation. They are messy and complex and if I stay in the present moment, as in nature, I find little pockets of magic giving me something to sculpt and define, create order and piece memories and stories together.
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BIO
Since 2005, Melbourne artist Michelle Harvey has been running her own small business, a design brand creating original product with traditional artisan techniques. Working as a creative has helped form a strong sense of visual storytelling and a personal aesthetic connected to history and function.
Working intuitively with what feels right has been the cornerstone of her business and ongoing art practice.
Michelle holds a Diploma of Fine Art from Latrobe Street College of Art and New Media, 2003.
PRIZES
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
Birregurra Art Show, Birregurra, Vic
CUPS, Apollo Bay Arts Inc, Vic
Bayside Art Show, Brighton, Vic
Mt View Art Show, Glen Waverley, Vic
Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
ART Red Hill, Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Vic
Apollo Bay Art Show, Apollo Bay, Vic
Bendigo Art Show, Bendigo, Vic
Tumut Art Show, Tumut, NSW
'Stories of Land and Sea', Arts Inc Gallery, Apollo Bay, Vic
Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
2022
Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Vic
Inverell Art Prize, Inverell, NSW
Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
Incognito Art Show, Verona, Paddington, NSW
ART Red Hill, Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula, Vic
Clare Valley Art Show, Clare Valley, SA
Hastings Art Show, Hastings, Vic
Tumut Art Show, Tumut, NSW
Bendigo Art Show, Bendigo, Vic
Apollo Bay Art Show, Apollo Bay, Vic
'Coasting', Arts Inc Gallery, Apollo Bay, Vic
Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
2021
Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Vic
Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
Squares 2021, Strathnairn Arts Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
Bendigo Art Show, Bendigo, Vic
Apollo Bay Art Show, Apollo Bay, Vic
2020
Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Vic
2005
Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Vic
Group show, Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
2004
Linden Postcard Show, Linden New Art, St Kilda, Vic
'Women's Salon', Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
2003 'a sense of calm', Artholes Gallery, Fitzroy, Vic
2002 Studio shows, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
2001 Studio shows, Latrobe Street Gallery, Melbourne, Vic
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