Michelle Mountain
Michelle Mountain spent her early childhood growing up on a honey farm in South Africa which filled her with a sense of adventure and childlike wonder. Now living in Melbourne, she’s been lucky enough to spend the past 10 years working working with hundreds of artists in art galleries and museums around Victoria. Still a girl with her head in the clouds, Michelle is an aspiring children’s writer and illustrator. She values the slow, quiet moments of art making and finding joy in the small things.
Publications & Awards
2019 ‘Through Her Lens: Women in the Horsham Regional Art Gallery Collection’, In Her Words exhibition catalogue, Horsham Regional Art Gallery
2018 ‘Aphrodite and Echo: blindness and shadows in the cave’: written response to Rudi Williams’ exhibition Echo: beneath the cataract lies a stain at Sutton Projects, 7 – 28 July 2018.
2016 ‘Watching for Echoes’: written response to Rudi Williams’ exhibition ECHO at CAVES, 12 November – 3 December 2016.
2016 ‘What does this one do?’, exhibition catalogue, Deakin University Art Gallery.
2016 ‘Pieter Hugo, Green Point Common, Cape Town 2013’, Art Journal 54, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
2014 ‘Biography’, Alex Prager [ebook], National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/ebooks/alex-prager/index.php?chapter=8
2012 ‘The Leap’, Verandah 27, Deakin University, Burwood.
2010 Post-graduate bursary, National Arts Council of South Africa
2010 Rhodes University Post-Graduate Scholarship
2009 Dean’s List – Faculty of Humanities
2004 First Place in Time of the Writer, National creative writing competition, South Africa