Michelle Gilbert: Surge

Michelle Gilbert Surge 3 – 27th October 2018

Surge This series continues my investigation of landscape as a means of self portrait.

The works consider personal encounters I have had with the everyday sublime where the landscape has suddenly appeared to surge with subtle energy.

While it is often the more grandiose or concrete moments we think of as defining us, these works contemplate how the small experiences of place culminate to form memory and self.

In paintings where I am physically present, my figure performs to unite the works, reminding the viewer of my act of looking and also of their own.

Michelle Gilbert

It caught me by surprise (2018) Oil on linen 56 x 71 cm $3900

From above below (2018) Oil on linen 61.5 x 61.5 cm $3900

Towards and beyond (2018) (Diptych) Oil on linen 36 x 36 cm per panel $2200

Through the overgrowth (2018) Oil on linen 61.5 x 84 cm $4200

What we didn’t know (2018) Oil on linen 36 x 45.5 cm $2000

Behind and backwards (2018) Oil on linen 61.5 x 61.5 cm $3900

Holding on (2018) Oil on linen 76.5 x 61.5 cm $4100

Chasing (2018) Oil on linen 36 x 30.5 cm $1900

When I couldn’t look away (2018) Oil on linen 56 x 84 cm $4100

Michelle Gilbert CV www.michellegilbert.com.au

Education

2016

Bachelor of Fine Art (major in Painting & minor in Art Theory), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

Solo Exhibitions

2018 2017 2016

Surge, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane Before the Approach, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane A Suitable Distance, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane

Group Exhibitions

2015 2014 2014 2012 2012 2011 2010 2000

QCA Showcase, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane Linden Postcard Show, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne Brookfield Art Show, Brookfield Showgrounds Here and There, Southern Cross University, Lismore and Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art Queensland College of Art Study Tour Photography Exhibition Rotary Art Prize, Riverside Centre, Brisbane The Diaphanous Plane: a second year painting show, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Education Minister's Awards for Excellence in Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, and Queensland touring exhibition

Awards

2015 2015 2014 2011 2000

QAGOMA Bookstore Painting Book Prize, Fine Art Graduate Award Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence 3rd prize for Painting Brookfield Art Show Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence Education Minister's Award for Excellence in Art

Collections

Private Collections Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital Mater Hospital Department of Education Queensland

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