Michelle Hamer (artist)
Michelle Hamer (born 1975) is a contemporary visual artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work comments on the digital and physical world we inhabit. Her work is based on her own photographs of language within the environment. The slogans at the heart of Hamer’s work question how the language of our everyday life reflects bigger questions and issues we face both personally and as a society as a whole. Hamer is primarily known for the way she uses hand-stitching, language and photography (her own and found) to bring attention to social issues in a clever and satirical way. Her tapestries on perforated plastic grids She ‘combines texts, yarn and the digital world’. Concerned with “how universal our belief systems… have become”, she sources language found within the urban environment. Style Informed by her background in architecture, the work focuses on signage within urban landscapes. In particular, addressing ideas of intertopia, margins of error, interstitial a ...
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