Michelle Teear
Gallery 139
Michelle Teear Desert Rain 1 (2020) tempera on ply 600 x 800mm $1600.00 inc framing
enquiries info@gallery139.com.au
Michelle Teear joined Gallery 139 in August 2019, after participating in several group exhibitions with the gallery. She is an emerging artist, producing raw gestural landscape paintings, and working with natural fibres to make woven sculptures and to extract plant colour onto textiles. Her work celebrates the vibrancy and character of the Australian landscape.
Currently based in Lake Macquarie, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design in Sydney in 2005. Since 2015 she has developed a regular studio based practice with frequent research trips throughout Australia to conduct research through en plein studies.
Michelle works directly from the landscape through a combination of visual en plein studies in gouache and oils, and experiments with found materials for mark making and pigment sources. Her way of working allows Michelle to completely immerse herself in a landscape and respond to it by incorporating it physically in the work. This research forms the foundation of her studio based practice where she produces work for regular shows. She makes her own oil paint and mediums, using the techniques of the old masters, with a preference for earth based organic pigments.
In 2019 she won the Packers Prize for her painting ‘Bongon Depths’ in the Newcastle Emerging Art Prize (Newcastle Art Space) and is currently developing her next solo show in response to a recent three month research trip throughout the Northern Territory completed in mid-2019, where she investigated the desert landscape, its intense colour and culture. This exhibition can be viewed online HERE.
In October 2020, Michelle was part of the Accessible Arts & Bundanon Artist-in-Residence program. Read article HERE and watch the ABC News report HERE.
Michelle Teear Gorge Country, 2019 oil, egg emulsion on ply 60x80cm $1600.00 framed
enquiries info@gallery139.com.au
Gallery 139 presents Michelle Teear at 33 Scott St Galleries, Newcastle 2019
Michelle Teear in group exhibition Gallery 139 presents FROM THE LAND, 2019 at Newcastle Art Space
Michelle Teear Timber Beach 2019 oil on plywood 60 x 60cm $800.00 SOLD
Michelle Teear Munmorah Rock Shelf 2019 oil on plywood 120 x 120cm framed $2200.00
Michelle Teear Kosciouzko Rise 2017 oil on plywood, egg emulsion 28 x 35.5cm $220.00 SOLD