History

Michael went to the VCA, finished in 2003 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, majoring in sculpture and for the following eight years worked for his VCA supervisor at Perrin Sculpture Foundry, where he had the opportunity to learn modern and traditional bronze casting techniques.

The foundry offered the privilege of working with many of Australia’s leading artists on the execution of major commissions.This time enabled the production of two large bodies of work which resulted in two major solo exhibitions.

Michael works in a range of different media including large scale murals, bronze, stone and timber sculpture, painting and printmaking. New materials and new technique inform his work and it is constantly evolving.

'Art is not just about technique. I believe that it is also about the mysteries of creativity and the ways in which creative people serve to enrich our understanding of who we all are.' Michael Porter

EDUCATION

2004 Bachelor Fine Arts Victorian College of the Arts

COMMISSIONS

2017 Youth engagement project, Commissioned by The City of Ballarat

2017 Upper Esplanade painting mural, Commissioned by The City of Port Phillip

2017 Docklands Mural, Commissioned by Blender Studio

2017 Easey St Train Mural. Private Commission by Easy St

2017 Acland Court painting mural, Commissioned by The City of Port Philip

2016 Balaclava railway station painting mural, Commissioned by The City of Port Philip

2016 Park Towers community housing mural, Commissioned by The City of Port Philip

2016 Swallow st park PowerStation mural, Commissioned by CitiPower
2016 Hamilton skate park mural project, Commissioned by Hamilton Regional Gallery
2015 Chainsaw carving technician, Assistant to Mark Shaller, Commission for Qdos
2015 Bronze casting, Private Commission
2014 Sculpture Point Leo Technician for Adrain Mauriks, Commissioned by John Gandel
2014 NZ Bus Shelter design murals and installations, Commissioned by NZ shelters
2013 Dunkeld Roadside Billboard, Commissioned by Southern Grampians shire Council
2013 Gurtrude street Collingwood mural, Commissioned by the Jesuit Social Service
2013 Bronze casting, Officer Precinct Artist Technician, Heather B Swann, Commissioned by Cardinia Shire
2012 Bronze Casting, Queensland Artist Technician for William Eicholts, Commissioned, War Memorial
2012 Public art Commission, arts act, civic, Technician for Anne Ross, Canberra
2011 New Acton Lift Shaft Mural Project Canberra, commissioned by Molongo group
2011 Bronze Casting, Private Commission
2010 Jam Factory mural, commissioned by Rolling Thunder Skateboards

ART EXHIBITIONS

2017 Backwoods Gallery Solo Show

2017 Syria Fundraiser 'For Syria's Children' Group Show

2017 Door Night Group Show

2017 'A Whole Different Animal Brightspace Gallery. Group Show

2017 Deakin Small Sculpture Award Finalist

2017 Yarra Sculpture Gallery Residency and exhibition

2014 Subject/Matter Brightspace Gallery

2013 Double Vision Brightspace Gallery

2011 Winter Salon Brightspace Gallery
2011 The Seven Visible Signs of Ageing, RMIT Open Space gallery Melbourne
2010 Urban Intervention Yarra Sculpture Gallery Abbotsford
2010 Street/studio, No Vacancy Gallery Fed Square
2010 Emerging Artists Exhibition Without Pier Gallery
2009 Until Never Gallery Hosier Lane Melbourne
2009 Spring Summer Salon Brightspace St Kilda
2009 Yarra Sculpture Gallery Abbotsford
2008 Summer Salon Brightspace St Kilda
2007 Hush Hush Gallery Hosier Lane Melbourne
2005 Mapping the City St Kilda Rd Melbourne

ART WORKSHOPS

2006 Gateway Project Collingwood

2007 Monash Gallery of Art Wheelers Hill
2008 Melbourne City Council Laneway Mural Melbourne
2012 StKilda PCYC Mural project
2014 StKilda PCYC Mural project
2016 Hamilton Regional Gallery Skate Park Mural project

PUBLICATIONS

2004 Conform S Folk Macmillan Publishers
2004 Street Art Uncut M Lunn Craftsman House
2006 Rash N Hansen ABC TV
2007 Uncommissioned Art C Dew Miegunyah Press
2007 Making Space D Heagney VIAN
2010 Street / Studio Young A Thames & Hudson