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Michelle Connolly is a mixed media painter and sculptor. Michelle’s practice fledged while living in North Carolina, USA where she immersed herself in visionary folk art, primitive and outsider art.

Improvisation, play and the harnessing her own unique authentic raw energy are critical elements of Michelle’s open and organic approach to making. In her studio Michelle develops multiple works simultaneously in a prolific and generous manner that creates order from chaos through intuitive experimentation. As each mark or material is responded to and each work develops it triggers the next to sustain Michelle’s internal dialogue with her work.

Michelle’s assembled sculptural works are often held together with wire that at once binds together and creates their visceral tenderness and vulnerability, and is also evident in her two-dimensional works where spontaneous authentic mark making creates characters of human and animal fragility.

Michelle now lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

Find out more about Michelle and her work here and @michelleconnollyart