Michelle has completed an Advanced Diploma in Engineering Jewellery at NMIT (now Melbourne Polytechnic) in 2011, a Bachelor of Fine Art with first class honours in 2017 at RMIT University, Melbourne, and is currently a PhD candidate at RMIT undertaking a creative dissertation researching the ‘Phenomena of the Forest’. Her contemporary jewellery and glasswork have been selected for shows in Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and North America, with her recycled glass work also winning an award in Venice, Italy. She spent a year at The Glasgow School of Art as an Artist in Residence in 2018-19 and this year completed the Bundanon Artist Residency in NSW. With an environmental bias that explores notions of health, connectivity and symbiotic relationships, Michelle works in glass, using pâte de verre and lampworking techniques blended with her metal working skills to create contemporary jewellery works, small sculpture and installation works.