“Recently, my focus has shifted to include analogue collage, a visual genre that offers a welcome break from digital distractions. Working with paper, the physical cutting, layering, and rearranging, gives me a direct and rewarding way to engage with form. Through this process, I investigate themes of social justice, our relationship with nature, and environmental connections. What happens in the wider world, both globally and locally, often finds its way onto my worktable. Letting go of expectations and trusting my instincts has become an important part of my creative process.

Collaboration is also central to my work, the chance to connect with others, whether through group projects or commissioned briefs. Collage is an exceptional tool for investigating the historical and cultural complexities of the human experience. For me, bringing together cut-outs of people, words, and objects is a way of creating poignant statements that sustains a meaningful practice.” - Michelle Leber, 2025

Awards: Winner of the Trades Hall Art Prize, 2024. Shortlisted for the Contemporary Collage Magazine Awards (UK), 2023.

Groups Shows 2020-2025: Australia, the UK, USA, Russia, Peru, and the Czech Republic

Solo Exhibition: Galleria Crocodillo, Melbourne, AUS (2025)

You can find more about my current and previous exhibitions and collaborations on my News page here.

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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.