Profile
Michelle Siciliano is a Perth based installation artist whose work usually includes sound, video or performance components.
In September 1992, Michelle held her first exhibition – a solo – at the ArtsHouse Gallery in Northbridge. This exhibition, Discourse Intercourse was the culmination of a Bachelor of Education at Edith Cowan University (ECU). Michelle has also participated in a number of group exhibitions some of which she co-ordinated including the adventurous Avantgardeners: an exhibition about gardens and gardening. While in 2001, she curated an exhibition of installation art – Loop – at the Moores Building. In the following year, Michelle graduated with an Honours Degree in Visual Arts from ECU and installed Precurser a body of new work in the spectrum project space. Since then Michelle has been invited to present work in a number of curated shows including Australiens at PICA in 2003 and bones of the skin at Breadbox. As well as exhibiting extensively in Western Australia, including a number of solo shows, she has exhibited in NSW, Tasmania and the ACT. Most recently she has shown work at the Trocadero Art Space in Footscray, Melbourne.
Michelle has also been involved in a number of community and hybrid arts projects including producing extraordinary dessert performances with collaborators as part of Artrage’s Dinnervision, gate crashing the Joondalup Street parade and remaining unknown while appearing in persona at various events around Perth. She also produces art activities for children, where on one occasion a saltpan in Tammin was reclaimed for interactive fun.
Michelle is manager of spectrum project space, a continuing an initiative of the School Communications and Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University, providing an alternative art space for artists.
