Michele Morcos
Artists biography
Michele Morcos is a multimedia visual artist with a studio practice in Sydney. She graduated from UNSW Art & Design (Collage of Fine Arts) in 1999 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting/drawing) and a BA Honours in Art Theory. Michele has exhibited her work in eight solo exhibitions and over twenty group exhibitions throughout Australia. She has been selected twice as a finalist for The Brett Whiteley Art Scholarship and also for major prizes such as the Mosman Art Prize, and the Urban EDGE contemporary art prize.
During the past 1o years, Michele has worked and taught at Macquarie University, and in a number of art galleries including ADC: Australian Centre for Design in Sydney. She has also completed Artist-in-residence programs in Australia & overseas. In 2016 Michele collaborated on a public art project with DoeandDoe to create a ten minute hand drawn animated film for Transport NSW’s Wynscreen project, while exhibiting a new collection of works for her seventh solo exhibition at Koskela Gallery in Sydney.
In March 2018 Michele exhibited a new installation artpiece for Art Month 2018 in the red project: a group exhibition curated by Alison at The Coal Loader Site in Balls Point Sydney, and in September, exhibited her eighth solo exhibition in Sydney entitled Everywhen : sensory displays of affection and alight, that focused on painted, drawn, sculpted, and coil woven artworks.
In 2020 Michele will exhibit new work at Sabbia Gallery and the Jamfactory and she has just completed her 9th solo exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery in Sydney. Currently Michele has an artist studio in an Inner West Council artspace in Australia st Camperdown.
Current work and inspiration
Through multimedia drawings, paintings and coil woven objects, Michele's 9th solo exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, entitled breathe, creates a multilayered visual landscape that asks us to look at the infinitesimal details of nature, and feel the colour, beauty and poetry that quietly surrounds us in the every –when. Take a look at some of the artwork that was produced for the solo-exhibition here: https://www.michelemorcos.com/landscapes-2020-2017.
In the studio Michele is currently working on two bodies of work. The first is a series of landscape paintings and the second is a series of coil woven sculptures, and works on paper and canvas that explore themes relating research into the universe and quantum physics.
Throughout my art practice and the varying themes explored in each series, my work has three key areas of exploration : colour, light, energy and emotional content.
Website and social media links
website: https://www.michelemorcos.com/
instagram: tinytrappings