Naarm / Melbourne-based Michele Burder holds a Master of Arts (Painting) and a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) with Honours, both from RMIT.
Michele’s diverse, established practice has, most recently, seen her hold four solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. She has been part of collaborative exhibitions at Geelong Gallery, Gertrude Street, Platform, Blindside Gallery and Gallery Rayé, as well as other group exhibitions in Melbourne, Brisbane, Malmsbury, Canberra and Taipei. She has been shortlisted for the Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat and Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo, and has been artist in residence at the Arthur Boyd Trust, Bundanon, NSW. Her work is held in the Bundanon Trust collections, as well as in private collections within Australia and internationally.
Gallery Rayé is delighted to introduce Michele’s series - ‘The Green Dream’. This body of work looks at the spaces in which nature and development meet and overlap. Michele is interested in the structure of nature and how it interacts over time with the constructed environment; focus is on the continuous interplay between these two systems and the tension that arises from it. These paintings explore landscapes in which people are absent, but are implied through the traces of remnant infrastructure.
