Michele Fountain

Michele Fountain
Visual Artist

Solo Shows
AGENT/AGENCY
At a Stretch HillsceneLIVE Festival, Upwey29 Aug 2026
I Miss the Way We Used to Talk
Artemisia Gallery, Windsor27 Aug 2025 – 7 Sep 2025
Ballad of the Panopticon
Artemisia Gallery, Windsor4 Sep 2024 – 15 Sep 2024
1. To Make it Real
VCA Artspace, Victorian College of the Arts4 Sep 2024 – 6 Sep 2024
Looking Wider 
Burrinja Gallery, Upwey15 Nov 2019 – February 2020
Cornucopia
(with Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan) | Art at Linden Gate, Yarra Glen9 Aug – 16 Sep 2019
The Road: Towns of the Hume Highway
Red Earth Gallery, Mooroolbark16 Aug – 23 Sep 2017
Paintbrush, Loom & Hammer: 3 Variations on a Natural History Theme
(with Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan and Amy Duncan) | Burrinja Gallery, UpweyJun 24 – Jul 23 2017
Unspoken
Mapping Immediacy HillsceneLIVE Festival, Mt Evelyn29 Oct 2016
Mirror, Mirror
End of the Live Festival, Belgrave28 Nov 2015
Enchanted Forest
(with Julia Day) | Navigating Personal Territories HillsceneLIVE Festival, Monbulk30 Oct 2015

Selected Group Shows
On a Roll: A Survey of Contemporary Victorian Printmaking
Artemisia Gallery, Windsor17 – 28 June 2026
STABLEMATES
Mycelium Basement, Brunswick East15 – 16 May 2026
Midsummer Night's Dream: A Magical Queer Group Show
Artemisia Gallery, Windsor21 Jan – 1 Feb 2026
FEAST
Artemisia Gallery, Windsor8 – 19 Oct 2025
Hysterical Legacies
Birnbeal Gallery, QVWC, Melbourne8 – 24 Oct 2025
SMALL!
fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne4 – 21 Dec 2024
VCA Graduation Show
The Stables, Victorian College of the Arts21 – 28 Nov 2024
From Where I Stand
VCA Artspace, Victorian College of the Arts22 – 24 May 2024
every(n)one
Five Walls Gallery, Footscray28 Feb – 23 Mar 2024
Double Denim
VCA Artspace, Victorian College of the Arts25 – 28 Jul 2023
CCP Summer Salon
Centre for Contemporary Photography25 Nov – 18 Dec 2022
GCVA Graduation Show
VCA Artspace, Victorian College of the Arts1 – 4 Nov 2022
Dora McRea Exhibition
Octagon, Victorian College of the Arts26 – 29 Sep 2022
Dora McRea Exhibition
Octagon, Victorian College of the Arts16 – 22 Mar 2022
ILFORD CCP Salon
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy23 Nov – 15 Dec 2019
Small Works Prize
Arts Mildura, Mildura1 Aug – 1 Sep 2019
Alchemy
Sherbrooke Art Gallery, Belgrave21 Mar – 22 Apr 2019
What Lies Beneath
Burrinja Gallery, Upwey28 Mar – 6 May 2018
Connections
Frankston Art Centre11 Aug – 1 Sep 2017
Duality
Burrinja Gallery, Upwey1 Apr – 14 May 2017
Reflections
Tootsie Gallery, Yass12 Jan – 1 Apr 2017
9 x 5
Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong1 Dec – 21 Dec 2016
Brooching the Subject
Timeless Textiles, Newcastle13 – 17 Jul 2016
MICRO/MACRO
Burrinja Gallery, Upwey18 Mar – 25 Apr 2016
9 x 5
Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong3 – 22 December 2015
Collective Conscience
End of the Line Festival, Belgrave28 Nov 2015
Red Obsession One Red Thread Textile Award
Berry School of Arts29 – 30 Aug 2015
0809 Weavers Exhibition
Handweavers & Spinners Guild, Carlton North30 May – 15 Jun 2015
Textures of One
Blayney Shire Community Centre21 – 22 Mar 2015
Tactile Pleasure
Apollo Bay Church Hall7 – 31 Jan 2015
Thief of Time BENDER Exhibition
Limerence, Belgrave7 – 14 Mar 2014
Geelong Scarf Festival
Australian Wool Museum, Geelong6 Jun – 7 Sep 2014

Awards
Lionel Gell Foundation Award
2024

Education
Master of Contemporary Art
Victorian College of the Arts2023-24
Graduate Certificate in Visual Art
Victorian College of the Arts2022
Drawing Foundations
Victorian College of the Arts2019
Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration 101
University of Newcastle MOOC2019
Certificate in Design
Creative Fibres (New Zealand via correspondence)2016

Collections
Private Collections (Australia)
Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland
Private Collections (International)
Canada