Michelle Driver is a queer, neurodiverse tapestry artist based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Michelle's work delves deep into the realms of gothic aesthetics, the eerie and sinister. Her artistic journey is a narrative of non-conformity, and celebration of queerness, and an exploration of her childhood trauma, all underscored by a subtle but resonant dark humour.
Through her art, Michelle invites us to revel in the beauty of decay, to find allure in the forgotten and discarded, and to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. Her work is a testament to the profound, often unsettling, but undeniably captivating beauty that can be discovered when one dares to look beyond the surface.
Recipient of the 2016 Port Pirie Art Prize and a finalist of many others, Michelle’s distinctive visual language makes her work both instantly recognisable and difficult to classify.