Michelle Black

Michelle Black is an experimental printmaker who works in collaboration with nature to provide a deeper connection to the Country where she lives and works. Her artistic practice is diverse, responding to the landscape in various ways. Black uses printmaking techniques, often in a non-traditional manner, with materials and processes influenced by the landscape. Non-traditional materials used in the creation of this work includes black soil and cotton lint in the representation of the agricultural landscapes that surround her.

Black is an emerging artist (printmaker) who relocated to Dalby in February 2023 after living and working in central Queensland for 16 years. She has exhibited in central Queensland as part of large and small group exhibitions and was a finalist in the 2019 Bayton Awards at the Rockhampton Art Gallery; finalist and travelling exhibitor in the 2019 Flying Arts Alliance Regional Arts Award; and finalist in the 2020 Libris Awards: Australian Artist Book Prize in Mackay. Her work from the 2019 Bayton Award was acquired and included in the inaugural Welcome Home collection exhibition at Rockhampton Museum of Art in 2023. She was the recipient of the 2023 Fairholme Open Art Prize Emerging Artist Prize (Acquisitive).

Black has realised several public art projects, including seating design in collaboration with Darumbal artist Ernest Garrett, on the Nurim Circuit, an iconic tourist lookout atop of Mount Archer in Rockhampton, along with facade treatments on public and private buildings. She has completed several private printmaking commissions, including a series of works for ‘The Long Gallery’, Benevolent Living collection in Rockhampton. Black is a founding member of the Capricornia Printmakers, based in Rockhampton, and balances her artistic pursuits with her small graphic design business and family.