“My life is proving simple lately. One focus is on analogue collage where there are few digital distractions. It is rewarding working with the tactility of paper, to re-assemble images and pay attention to what’s important, often nowadays advocating for social justice, nature connectedness, eco-alliances. Changes in the global and local arena reverberate on the work table. It helps to disregard expectations, to follow gut instincts. After all, it is your only life, so you better live it by your own convictions, right?

What makes me feel more human in the collage world? Collaboration. It’s when I have the opportunity to connect on projects that things happen. Collage is the perfect tool for investigating the historical and cultural complexities of the human experience. It’s the cut-outs of people, words and objects merging together, the attempts at creating poignant statements that helps sustain a meaningful practice.” - Michelle Leber, 2025

You can find more about my collaborations on my News page here.

SHOW OF HANDS

This 10-part series investigates fragmented, often disruptive histories, relinquishing control to offer the human hand a narrative. Commissioned by Cordite as part of their Amble edition (2021). Find four images from this series below.

XYLOGRAPHICA - Reimagining Albrecht Dürer, Artist Book (2021)

An experimental non-fiction leporello incorporates the work of Albrecht Dürer by re-forming 15th century narratives into contemporary visual forms. Forty pages allow for thematic discourse into religion, mathematics, the personality of self. This book is a comparative diagnosis between the first woodblocks and 21st century collage. Find 10 pages below; this book was a contender for The Kanyer Art Collection, USA.

WHAT THE BIRDS ARE SAYING

This series is an on-going forum — let the birds speak of human complexity, jeopardy and displacement.