Michaela Gleave

Bediagal/Wangal Country
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Michaela Gleave is an artist based in Bediagal/Wangal Country, Sydney, Australia. Gleave’s conceptual practice spans numerous mediums and platforms including digital and online works, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. Her projects question the nature of reality and our innate relationship to time, matter, and space, focusing particularly on the changing intersections between art, science, and society.

Gleave’s work has been presented extensively across Australia and internationally. She has developed major performance and installation works for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Bristol Biennial, UK; TarraWarra Art Museum, Melbourne; Carriageworks, Sydney; and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne among others. Gleave has been awarded residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City, Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan, as well as CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia.

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Exhibition

Now Or Never Art Trail (2023)

Exhibition

Experimenta Recharge (2014-2016)

Michaela Gleave
Of sky and sea, 2023

Of sky and sea reveals the role of language as a critical marker of the interconnected impacts facilitated by maritime exploration and trade.

Michaela Gleave
Model for the end of the universe

Michaela Gleave’s practice investigates the physicality of perception, interrogating the systems and structures through which we construct our image of reality. Executed as a series of experiments, her often-temporal works question our relationship to time, matter and space, working with natural phenomena and tricks of perception within the frameworks that shape our knowledge of the universe.

Michaela Gleave
A Galaxy of Suns

A Galaxy of Suns is a spectacular 32-part choir performance that ‘sings’ the stars as they rise and set over 360˚ of the horizon. Tracking the Earth’s motions through space, the work documents in real-time the audience’s precise position in relation to the stars, sonifying stellar data in a unique celebration of the majesty and beauty of the cosmos.