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BACKGROUND

Michaelancholia hails from careers in film, brand strategy, and luxury footwear and accessories. Trained in Footwear Design at Cordwainers College, London College of Fashion: UAL she designed for global lifestyle brands spanning two decades, on both sides of the Atlantic. Her work has appeared in Wallpaper, British Vogue, the FT, and The Sunday Times Style Magazine. She has worked on accessories design projects for Sony, X Box, Rizla, Apple, Roberts Radio, and Wedgwood. 

 

Michaelancholia's love of human-object narratives and popular culture have led to multidisciplinary art practice and mixed media image-making, honed in a Masters in Illustration and Visual Media at London College of Communication: UAL, and a UAL accredited diploma in Ceramics. 

 

CONTEXTUAL FRAMEWORK

Through a lens of identity politics, Michaelancholia's 

multidisciplinary practice is informed by critical research and writing in the uncanny, notions of 'home', (be)longing/s, object theory, materiality, ornamentation, displacement art, the figurative, and the Classics.

 

Michaelancholia ongoingly produces and curates an expanding collection of mixed media art pieces and immersive events, underpinned by the common theme of picturing the ineffable liminal space between body, object, place, and time. Interrogating their interconnected identities though material and technical experimentation – ceramics, code, animation, AR, photography, and oil painting – palimpsestic visual 'echoes' are formed, disrupting traditional craft, ceramic objets, time based media, and the figurative, creating experimental 2D and 3D analogue and digital image making.

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GUERILLA VALUES

Interdisciplinary critical and creative dialogue, mixed media experimentation, community, and disseminating critical enquiry in displacement, are at the core of Michaelancholia's research and practice. She works solo, as well as devising curated collaborations with academics, artists, thinkers, and non-art practitioners to form unique perspectives designed  to challenge common modes of  thinking and her own practice.

 

COLLABS

Collaborative and commercial projects have included working with and for The British Museum, The Royal Academy of Arts, Mulberry, V&A, and Stephen Walters & Sons Limited.

 

Public art curated events include co-authored published research on the clinical and creative benefits of community art for trauma-affected child refugees, in collaboration with neuropsychologists from King’s College London, Queen Mary University, and Children & War UK.

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Michaelancholia has co-exhibited her ceramics at Messums West Gallery’s 2024 Ceramics Season: Plates with Purpose exhibition.

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During Kensington and Chelsea Art Week 2024, she exhibited with musician Sam Antony Mitchell of Longheads, exhibiting ceramics, oil painting, and time based media alongside his accompanying immersive music formed of  themes of counter points within the composition to represent the generative element of the visuals.​

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