Michelle Gauntlett

2025 Craft + Design Canberra Daily Creative Challenge Finalist 

Artist Statement | So excited to learn of the Craft Challenge living here on the West coast. Being a part of something that stimulates my own practice whilst also generating new connections was an opportunity too good to miss. 
Always looking for new ways, ideas, materials and techniques. I like to ‘draw’ my ideas in copper. In this ‘happy place’ hammering metal I stayed ‘on track’ in terms of materials and now having an abundant supply of repurposed copper I allowed myself to explore techniques and push boundaries as I worked through the daily word prompts. I work organically and sometimes found myself working on three pieces at time.


Infinite
Water
Ripe
Release
Moon
Abundance
Rejuvenate
Nest
Synaptic
Passage
Twined
Predator
Returning
Echo
Untamed
Flow
Dismantle
Propagate
Rhythm
Hairy
Lush
Messy
Luminous
Corroboree-Frog
Naked
Finite
Understory
Resilience
Feral
Garden

Rewild