Michaela’s visionary analogue photography highlights contemporary feminist magical realism. Her muses are the connecting threads of myth and body-in-landscape portraiture. Endlessly fascinated by photography’s ability to alchemise light, she re-imagines embodied and sensorial relations to nature.

As well as her personal work, she has worked on a multitude of commissions and collaborative projects; from portraits to album covers, photo books, fashion and craft shoots and super-8 film.

Born in South Africa, she grew up in the UK and currently lives in Melbourne, Australia. She often travels for commissioned projects.

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For commission enquiries, collaboration ideas or simply to say hello - please get in touch via email. I would love to hear from you!

 

exhibitions

  • 2024 - Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Muswellbrook Gallery, Australia

  • 2022 - The Pariah Feminine, The Old Bar Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2022 - Birrarung: On the River, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne

  • 2022 - Ilford Salon Show, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

  • 2019 - Ilford Salon Show, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

  • 2019 - Her Wild Dreaming, Schoolhouse Gallery, Melbourne

  • 2019 - Jiyan, Siteworks, Melbourne

  • 2018 - From the Flow of Appearances, MA Photography Group Show, Brighton, UK

  • 2018 - The Selkie, ONCA, Brighton, UK

  • 2017 - Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre, London

  • 2015 - Ritual, World Wide Women Group Show. Grace Belgravia, London

  • 2014 - Ritual, World Wide Women Group Show. The Cob Gallery, London

  • 2014 - Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre, London

film screenings

  • 2025 - Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, Spain

  • 2025 - IbizaCineFest: Ibiza Independent Film Festival, Spain

  • 2024 - Sister Midnight Film Festival, Los Angeles

  • 2024 - Shell Space Salon: Memories of Sea and Land, Melbourne

publications

  • 2025 - upcoming Pomegranate Seeds - limited edition artist book

  • 2025 - The Wheel: Weaving the Feminine Archetypes, Tended Hearth Press

  • 2018 - An Island Muse - limited edition artist book

  • 2018 - When I Was Furthest From Water with Joanna Hruby, Hedgespoken Press

  • 2018 - The Selkie - Weaving & the Wild Feminine Imogen Bright Moon

  • 2014 - Curator of Viriditas: an Anthology of Contemporary Women Artists

awards

  • 2024 - Finalist of Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

  • 2024 - Professional Printing Prize, Centre for Contemporary Photography

  • 2019 - Best Darkroom Print, Centre for Contemporary Photography

residencies

  • 2025 - La Pietra che Respira, an exploration of land, art & myth, Italy

  • 2023 - Arcadia, Can7, Formentera

  • 2023 - Vessel Studio, Ibiza

  • 2016 - Casita Verde, Ibiza

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    MA Photography (University of Brighton) UK