Artist Profile
Born in the West Midlands, UK in 1971 Michele Harris is a fine artist working with drawing and printmaking techniques. She has work in a public and private collections across the UK.
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Artists Statement
Drawing is at the centre of my practice.
The ritual pleasure of line upon line, the obsessive ceremony of scratch over scratch
or a shadowy surface not quite defined; the corners not quite lit.
I scavenge symbols from superstition, myth, folklore and religion and hoard them; play with them until they conflate into what I need to express a story, emotion or experience.
CV
Solo Shows
2022 The New Art Gallery Walsall, Two Metre Talismans (installation)
2016 The New Art Gallery Walsall, Umbilical (Single work)
2016 Costa at The New Art Gallery Walsall, Sacrifices and Wishes
2008 Chameleon Gallery, Walsall, Stages
2006/2007 Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, Sacrifices and Wishes
2006 The Works Gallery, Birmingham, In Between (with Alex Everitt)
2006 Biston Gallery, Wolverhampton, Beyond the Reaches
Selected Group Shows
2023 RBSA Drawing Prize
2022 The New Art Gallery Walsall, Twenty Twenty
2021 General Office Gallery, Stourbridge, The Drawbridge
2020 The New Art Gallery Walsall, 20:20 Twenty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art
2017/18 The New Art Gallery Walsall, People’s Choice
2016 Eagle Works Gallery Wolverhampton, Studio holders Show
2012 The White Hart, Walsall, Gallerie Du Grotesque
2009 The Works Gallery, Birmingham, Winter Salon
2008 The Works Gallery, Birmingham, Winter Salon
2006 AFF, Battersea Park, London,
2006 Will’s Art Warehouse, London Bliss
2005 Colony Gallery, Birmingham, All at once, together, at the same time
2001 The Royal Pump Rooms Leamington Spa, Resonance
2001 The New Art Gallery Walsall, Open
Permanent Collections
The New Art Gallery Walsall (Umbilical, 2016)
The Twenty Twenty Collection, The New Art Gallery Walsall (Sebastian's Nest, 2021)
Groups
Member of The Natural Outsiders Collective
Awards
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design: Michelle Knight Scholarship
Education and professional Development
Artist Educator in galleries, Museums and community projects
Flying Start, Arts Facilitator Training, Birmingham City Council.
Exploring the Youth Justice System: an introduction for Arts Practitioners. Arts Council & OU
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, placement in print and drawings dept. assisting Reyahn King
and drawings curator
Public access lottery funded project at Birmingham Museum &Art Gallery Print Room
B.A. (hons) Visual Communication (illustration), BIAD, University of Central England