Michelle Caithness
Michelle Caithness is a regional Victorian artist who works across both painting and drawing. Her interest lies in exploring imagery within the range of figuration to abstraction. In these small paintings she references the light and architectural forms of the studio to structure ambiguous spatial readings.
Caithness graduated from the Department of Drawing at Victoria College Prahran in 1991 and completed a Masters of Visual Art at Monash University. She has exhibited in over twenty group and solo exhibitions. Finalist awards include The Dobell Drawing Prize, The Kedumba Drawing Award and the The Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize. She had initial links with Tacit more than 20 years ago - her first exhibition, Furl, was hosted by Tacit at the Thornbury premises in 2002.
2022 Recollect, Five Walls, Melbourne
2007 Rise and Fall, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2002 Furl, Tacit Art, Melbourne
The Reciprocal Eye, Warrnambool Regional Gallery (w/ Clive Murray-White)
2023 Artbox, Tacit Art, Melbourne
Abstraction, Five Walls, Melbourne
Maldon Landscape Prize: Essence of Place. Maldon
Bound Pigment: Celebrating Paint, Tacit Art, Melbourne
2022 Warrnibald Art Prize, Warrnambool (2nd Place)
2021 Art in the Time of COVID, Montsalvat, Melbourne
2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, Sydney
Nillumbik Contemporary Art Prize, Melbourne
Paper Walls, City of Glen Eira Gallery
Friends and Family, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2018 Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange
Clive Murray-White & Michelle Caithness, Montsalvat, Melbourne
Summer Salon, Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne
2017 A Collaboration, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne (w/ Clive Murray-White)
A Collaboration, Cowwarr Art Space (w/ Clive Murray-White)
2016 Arc Yinnar 6th Biennial Drawing Prize, Yinnar