Michaela Gleave 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, involving natural phenomena and tricks of perception within the context of the systems and structures that shape contemporary existence. Operating between the spaces of personal experience and global understanding, Gleave’s illusory works hover at the junction between art and science, returning repeatedly to the atmosphere and the space of the sky as the site for her work.  Gleave’s installations, performances and interventions question the relationship we have with our surroundings, allowing us to experience the processes by which we comprehend reality and rethink our presence within it.

Michaela Gleave (born 1980, Alice Springs, Australia) holds a BFA from the University of Tasmania, and an MFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.  Gleave’s work has been exhibited extensively across Australia, as well as in Germany, Austria, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and Mexico. Her recent exhibitions include A Day is Longer than a Year, Fremantle Arts Center, 2013; We Are Made of Stardust as part of Art Futures, Hong Kong Art Fair (solo), 2012; A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes (White), the Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 2010, and Primavera 09, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009.