Michele Grimston
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Photo 5 Foot Photography for Craft and Design Canberra
ABOUT
Michele Grimston is an artist and community cultural development practitioner based on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra. She is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD through the Faculty of Art and Design at University of Canberra.
Her work explores slow, meditative textile processes as ways of practicing care and connection for earth, community and spirit. She is interested in building individual and collective rituals of creation which develop the role of these laborious textile processes in our personal, spiritual and social wellbeing.
Michele completed her honours degree in textiles at the Australian National University School of Art in 2009 and in 2014, she graduated with a Masters in Community Cultural Development from the Victorian College of the Arts.
She has exhibited in Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Canada and her work is held in the collection of Geoscience Australia. Michele has presented participative, community engaged works through Rebus and You Are Here and has facilitated large scale collaborative projects as an artist in residence in multiple schools and Early Learning Centres.
In addition, Michele has over 10 years of experience managing community arts and education programs for public galleries including Belco Arts and Bunbury Regional Art Gallery. Through this work she supports artists and the public to build vibrant, connected and creative communities.
CV
Education
2025-present PHD Candidate, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra, ACT
2014 Masters in Community Cultural Development, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2009 Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours / Bachelor of Arts, Australian National University, ACT
Residencies
2025 Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve (Craft and Design Canberra and Parks ACT), ACT
2019 Vancouver Arts Centre, Albany WA
2017 Artist in Residence Coolgardie Primary School, Awesome Arts, WA
2016 Artist in Residence Newman Senior High School, Djidi Djidi Primary School, Awesome Arts WA
2012 Artist in Residence Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
2011 Artist in School, Lyons Early Childhood School, ACT Government Artists in Schools Program
Solo Exhibitions
2027 Learning to Hold Sacred, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT (Forthcoming)
2021 Time is longer than it feels, Chutespace, ACT
2016 Indefinite Landscapes, Paper Mountain, Perth
2016 A Catalogue of Scattered Thoughts, Archive Room, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, WA
2013 Spaces for Dreaming, Conduit Arts, Melbourne
2010 Wear, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, Canberra
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Rewilding, Craft and Design Canberra, ACT (Forthcoming)
2026 Everyday. Reverence, ANCA, ACT (Forthcoming)
2025 Soft Edges, M16 Artspace, Canberra
2024 Sharing Stories Arts Exchange, ANU Project Space, ACT
2024 Project Alchemy, The Queanbeyan Hive, NSW
2022 All That Glitters, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT
2022 Nurture, Craft ACT, ACT
2021 Transformation, Craft ACT, ACT
2019 Geo: The Art of the Collection, ANU Project Space, Canberra
2018 Nephelokokkygia, Brunswick Street Gallery, Victoria
2017 Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia
2017 Tree Street Art Safari, Bunbury, Western Australia
2016 Fort, BunbARI, Western Australia
2015 The Second Skin, Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, Western Australia
2015 Artists at the Helm, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, Western Australia
2012 Underdog Arts Festival, Marina West, British Columbia, Canada
2011 The Beetle and the Butterfly, Window 99, Melbourne and M16 Artspace Canberra
2010 Coalesce (emerging artist support scheme award), Strathnairn Gallery, Canberra
2010 Epidemic (Emerging Artist Support Scheme Award), Craft ACT, Canberra
2009 Graduate Exhibition, School of Art Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Grants
2016 Project Funding Under 15K, WA Government, Department of Culture and the Arts
2011 Arts ACT Artists in Schools Program, ACT Government, Arts ACT
2010 Youth Interact Grant, ACT Government, Department of Community Services