Michaela Gleave Explained

Awards:the churchie emerging art prize, 2015
Michaela Gleave
Nationality:Australian
Alma Mater:University of Tasmania
University of New South Wales
Birth Date:1980
Style:Conceptual

Michaela Gleave (born 1980) is a Sydney-based Australian conceptual artist best known for her use of light and her monumental site specific art works engaging with space, time and matter. She was a 2012-2013 artist-in-residence at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science and won a churchie award in 2015.

Early life and education

Gleave was born in Australia in 1980.[1] She obtained a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Tasmania in 2003,[2] and a master of fine arts degree from University of New South Wales in 2007.

Career and style

Gleave is a Sydney-based artist[3] whose practice is rooted within the history and context of installation and runs across numerous mediums and platforms such as: digital and online, performance, photography, sculpture, video, music, data visualisation and performance.[4] Gleave investigates main narratives at the intersection of arts, science and society, with a focus on creating immersive experiences that translate the influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world.[5]

She won the churchie emerging art prize in 2015.[6] Her work is featured in the 2022 book, co-authored by Anna Briers, Edward Colless, Naomi Riddle Michaela Gleave: the Influence of an Idea on the Physical Properties of the World[7]

Gleave has developed major performance and installation works shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Arts, Brisbane; Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart;[8] Fremantle Arts Center, Perth; Bristol, Biennal, UK; TarraWarra Museum of Art,[9] Victoria; Carriageworks, Sydney; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. She has received residency fellowships at the New York City-based International Studio and Curatorial Program,[10] at the Australia-based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, and at the Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan.[11] She was awarded a fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts in 2013.[12]

Permanent installations

Gleave has been commissioned to create several permanent installations including those at The Rechabite, Western Australia; the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria; and her light installation, We Are Made of Stardust, constructed from LEDs at the Salamanca Art Center, Tasmania.[13] [14]

Works

In 2013, her light installation A Day is Longer than a Year was featured in the Fremantle Arts Centre. In 2014, she broadcast a seven-hour performance Waiting for Time (7-hour confetti work) that incorporated an automated confetti canon eruption every minute.[15] In 2016, her red neon[16] installation Fear Eats the Soul featured at the entrance[17] of the Dark Mofo festival in Hobart, Tasmania. At the festival the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra collaborated with Gleave to perform the opening ceremony, A Galaxy of Suns. In 2017, her piece The World Arrives at Night (Star Printer)[18] was featured at the University of Queensland Art Museum's exhibit New Alchemists.[19]

In 2021, Gleave's collaboration with Aileen Sage Architects was shortlisted for the National Gallery of Victoria Architecture Commission competition.[20] The same year, her 2014 piece The World Arrives at Night (Star Printer) was featured at TarraWarra Biennial.

The Vivid Sydney 2022 festival featured Gleave's Endless Love atop of the Circular Quay train station.[21] On November 26, 2022, Gleave created the installation Between Us.[22] The installation, which lasted from 9pm to midnight local time, projected morse code lighting bursts from Footscray Community Arts Centre and The Substation in Newport art gallery. The Between Us installation is scheduled to be repeated at the Perth Festival in 2023.[23]

Selected works and projects

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 2023-02-05 . Michaela Gleave Biography, Artworks & Exhibitions . en . 2023-02-05.
  2. Web site: TCotA Alumni Alicia King, Michaela Gleave and Nadege Philippe-Jannon in New Alchemists - School of Creative Arts and Media . 2023-02-05 . School of Creative Arts and Media - University of Tasmania, Australia . en-AU.
  3. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/first-look-inside-the-7th-tarrawarra-biennial/news-story/0f5ecc677e82a60faa08ea429912438a First look: Inside the 7th TarraWarra Biennial
  4. Web site: Finegan . Ann . Michaela Gleave's Cosmic Time Apprehending the Multiverse: A Costumed Allegory for Four Percussionists .
  5. Book: Gleave, Michaela . The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world . Formist Editions . 2022 . 978-0-6455210-0-9 . Australia . 15–151 . En.
  6. Web site: Waiting for Time (7 Hour Confetti Work) The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize . 2023-02-05 . churchieemergingart.com.
  7. Book: Gleave . Michaela . Briers . Anna . Edward Colless . Kristensen . Annika . Riddle . Naomi . The influence of an idea on the physical properties of the world . [Newtown, New South Wales] . 2022 . 978-0-6455210-0-9 . 1348179233.
  8. News: Dark Mofo 2016: an opening weekend of endurance, immersion and dark art. Clem. Bastow. June 14, 2016. The Guardian.
  9. Web site: Cosmic Time . 2023-02-05 . TarraWarra Museum of Art . en-US.
  10. Web site: Michaela Gleave. iscp-nyc.org.
  11. Web site: Michaela Gleave - Universal Truths. June 22, 2013. Art Week.
  12. Web site: Fellow Focus: Michaela Gleave . Australia Council for the Arts . 5 February 2023.
  13. Web site: Michaela Gleave . 2023-02-05 . Experimenta . en.
  14. Web site: Brennan . Rosamund . Where the Wild Things Are: Sublime Sounds, Outlandish Art . The Rechabite . 5 February 2023.
  15. Book: Hight . Craig . Minichiello . Mario . The elephant's leg : adventures in the creative industries . Champaign, IL . 2021 . 978-1-86335-244-4 . 1243908874.
  16. News: 2016-06-10 . Dark Mofo's Dark Park: Watch, wander, feel, eat and drink this space . en-AU . ABC News . 2023-02-05.
  17. Web site: Taylor . Andrew . 2016-06-13 . Dark Mofo review: Tasmania's winter arts festival breaks all the rules . 2023-02-05 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  18. Web site: New AlchemistsSalamanca Arts Centre . 2023-02-05 . www.salarts.org.au.
  19. Web site: 14 June 2017 . Biology meets technology in contemporary art exhibition . 2023-02-05 . UQ News . en.
  20. Web site: Shortlist announced for 2021 NGV Architecture Commission . 2023-02-05 . ArchitectureAU . en.
  21. Web site: Blackman . Tahli . 2022-06-01 . Vivid Sydney is back with over 60 light shows displayed across the city . 2023-02-05 . The Sydney Sentinel . en-AU.
  22. Web site: 2022-11-27 . Notice the blinking lights in Melbourne's cloudy night sky? There's a simple explanation . 2023-02-05 . 7NEWS . en.
  23. News: 2022-11-10 . Written in the stars: six shows you need to see at the Perth Festival . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-02-05 . 0261-3077.
  24. Reverse Projections. (2013). Germany: Broken Dimanche Press.
  25. News: Bastow . Clem . 2016-06-14 . Dark Mofo 2016: an opening weekend of endurance, immersion and dark art . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-02-05 . 0261-3077.

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