Digital Catalogue: 2024 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award
Michelle Vine
b. 1976 Camden NSW, lives Brisbane QLD
the invisible (post-viral selfie II), 2024
digital photographic print on archival matt cotton rag paper
edition 2/7
Image courtesy of the artist © Michelle Vine
Artist Statement
In moments of my own boredom, banality and fear, I experiment with representation of the unknown, the hidden and the invisible in a post-pandemic world. My mobile phone camera, always with me, is the artist tool I can rely upon now for its capacity to readily capture and express what is more often a very private experience – what it is to live with rapidly increasing chronic illness and disability. I am exploring the experiences of 'the invisible', those left behind in the aftermath of the pandemic, still immunocompromised, high risk and unseen.
About the Artist
Michelle Vine is photographer and installation artist. Best-known for her embraceable textile works, recently she shifted back to photomedia, experimenting with representation of her private experiences of chronic illness and disability.
In 2024, Vine won the Brisbane Portrait Prize - Sylvia Jones Award for Women Artists for her photographic work. In 2020 she was selected for Hatched: The National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Her photographic works have been shown at Artspace Mackay, and in the USA and Germany.
Vine graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours) from the Queensland College of Art in 2019.
Gerwyn Davies
Bathers II
Tim Gregory
Libidinal Economies: Queen Victoria Monument, Queen’s Square, 3:10min 1907/2024 Captain Cook Monument, Hyde Park, 1:46min, c.1905/2023 Captain Cook Monument, Kurnell, 2:15min, 1906/2023 Governor Phillip Fountain, Botanical Gardens, 4:41min c.1905/2024
Merilyn Fairskye
Focus Infinity III (4.47am, 11 May 2024, Maralinga village)