Michaela works in sculpture, jewellery and installation, with her history in dance and somatics informing her material processes.
Her work is an exploration of felt experience. She investigates the qualities, tones and temporalities that constitute the intimate fabric of relations between the sensing being and their environment, and the places of resonance between natural and cultural ecologies.
Michaela works in highly explorative ways to develop material languages that are nuanced and sensory. Her primary area of studio research involves exploring the affective potential of materials, where she focusses on the threshold points of transformation between one substance and another, as an expression of the alchemy of becoming. Here, she develops unique metal-textile blends by growing copper and silver into velvet and organza through electroforming, and more recently developing varieties of re-constructed glass.
We experience the world in wordless ways before we language it, and it is in this pre-discursive realm where the transitional and plural interconnections between things retain their presence and vibrancy, before the experiences may be named in ways that attempt to transform and stabilise them, that I create my work.