Michelle Walker Art

Michelle Walker is a Visual Artist with an art/nature/science background whose work explores the bonds we build with the landscapes we inhabit. Her art practice is informed by her physical and emotional connection to the northern Australian landscape, and her 25 year career in the environment field.

Michelle works from aerial and satellite images and memory, experimenting with acrylics, cold wax and oil painting techniques, metalwork, enameling and woodworking. She is drawn to rudimentary mark-making and natural earth pigments in her work and often incorporates found materials.

Since graduating from a Fine Art degree at the Queensland College of Art, she has exhibited regularly in group and joint shows for her jewellery, sculpture and paintings. Since 2019, Michelle has had a full-time art practice including two solo exhibitions in Brisbane. In 2021, she was awarded the BSA Award as part of the OS Art Expo and her work has been featured on book covers and is held in Australian and North American collections.

Michelle has been a resident artist at the Lismore Art Space in Northern Rivers, NSW and for the last 14 years, has been an active member of the Blue Knob Gallery art collective. She teaches silver jewellery and enameling and runs women’s creativity retreats in the Northern Rivers and south-east Queensland.

Michelle is also an author – her memoir/manifesto, 20,000 Brushstrokes was published in 2019 – and a podcaster – Paintbrush & Ivories is a podcast for artists and creatives co-hosted with award-winning singer / songwriter, Jennifer Ruth Russell.