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



















