MICHELE MORCOS
CWA HALL
Michele Morcos is a multimedia visual artist with a studio practice in Sydney, Australia. 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 many solo exhibitions and 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 10 years, Michele has lectured 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.
Currently Michele has an artist studio in the Inner West of Sydney on Gadigal land, and in March 2022 exhibited a new collection of landscapes at Koskela - focusing on the lands of the Wiljakali, Malyangapa, Pantjikali peoples of Far Western NSW.
At OpenField, she will create an interactive performance installation in which visitors can participate by writing their emotional responses on paper and watching as Michele weaves them into an evolving installation.
Photos by ainslie.co
