Michelle Ussher

Biography

Born 1975, Moree, NSW. Lives London, UK. 

Education

1995

• Bachelor of Arts Industrial Design, University of Newcastle, Newcastle

1999

• Bachelor of Arts Fine Arts (Painting) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

2002

• Bachelor of Arts Honours Fine Arts (Drawing) Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
• Established artist initiative Clubsproject.inc, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

• Helovanorak, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, PICA, Perth, Australia
• Present Elsewhere, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia.
• Helovanorak, Darren Knight Gallery at silvershot, Melbourne, Australia

2007 

• The Last Great Wilderness, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2006 

• The only thing you taught me is the only thing I know, (with Helen Johnson) GCAS
• Darren Knight Gallery Stand, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia.
• Room 103, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Dragonflyeye, Studio 12, GCAS, Melbourne, Australia
• Dragonflyeye, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2004 

• Making Faces, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
• Playing House, Clubsproject, Melbourne, Australia.

2003 

• People who need people, First Draft, Sydney, Australia
• Yakkedee Yak Yah Yah Yah, with Rob McHaffie, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.

2002 

• Paintings and Posters, TCB/Uplands, Melbourne, Australia.
• Orcis, It's all Greek to me, Slide GCAS, Melbourne Australia.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009      

• I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

2008      

• Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present TarraWarra Biennial, Victoria, Australia
• The Tallis Foundation 2008 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia
• The Ecologies Project, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Victoria
• Forced Fields Conical, Melbourne, Australia
• Bal Tashchit, Thou Shalt Not Destroy. Environmental Apocalypse and the Hebrew Bible, Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Australia

2007      

• Monash University Collection - A Selection of Recent Acquisitions MUMA, Victoria, Australia
• Too Near Too Far, Care/of Contemporary Art Centre, Milan, Italy
• Contemporary Collection Benefactors Auction, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
• Across the board, Wallspace Gallery, Sydney Australia
• Life is sweet: contemporary Australian watercolours, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia

2006      

• Gertrude Studios 2006, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne Australia
• Plastic Myth, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• Girl Band, Deloitte Sydney, Australia
• The Drawingames Project, PB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• Figure, Deloitte Sydney, Australia
• Reflections in a golden eye, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.
• After Photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia.
• SLAVE, Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
• The Royal Melbourne Show, Sullivan & Strumpf, Sydney, Australia.

2005      

• Primavera 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, Muswellbrook, Australia.
• Paperchase, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• A Short History in a Fast Machine, GCAS, Melbourne, Australia
• Freedom for Prosperity, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane, Australia.
• It's all About Us, Arts Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
• Salon De Freehands, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
• SLAVE ,VCA Gallery (Margaret Lawrence Galleries at the VCA), Melbourne, Australia.

2004      

• 1+1+1, Yuill Crowley, Sydney, Australia.
• Species, NextWave Festival, Domain House (formally ACCA), Melbourne, Australia.
• Clubs in the Pines, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia.

2003      

• Second, Spencer Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
• Nature Rubik 14, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
• Linden Postcard Prize, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia.

2002      

• Postgraduate Exhibition, VCA Gallery (Margaret Lawrence Galleries at the VCA),Melbourne, Australia.
• Proud, VCA Gallery, Melbourne Australia.

2001      

• Eat My Art, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
• X-Punk, CityLights, Centre Arcade, Melbourne, Australia.
• SPF4, Harley Heaven, Melbourne, Australia.

1999      

• Graduate Exhibition, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
• First Site Gallery, RMIT Vault, Melbourne, Australia.

Publications

• Volumeverything, printed by Clubsproject for A Short History in a Fast Machine. GCAS 2005.
• BLESS No 25 Uniseasoners, SLAVE collaboration 2005.
• SLAVE Bless Cover, printed by Rob McKenzie 2004.
• Rubik 14, printed by Uplands Gallery 2003.
• Volumeveryone, printed by Clubsproject 2002.
• Rubik 4. Printed by Rubik at 1st Floor Artists & Writers initiative 1998

Bibliography

Collections

• Art & Australia Collection, Sydney, Australia
• Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
• UBS, Melbourne, Australia
• BHP Billiton Collection, Melbourne, Australia
• Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne, Australia.
• Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
• Artbank Australia

Awards and Prizes

2008

• April - June - Paris Cite University of Sydney Power Institute Residency, Paris, France

2008

• Feb - April - Silvershot Residency Program, Melbourne , Australia

2006

• ANZ Art & Australia Emerging Artist Award
• Shortlisted ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award

2005 - 2006

• Studio Artist Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia