Michelle Baharier
Residency period: August 2024
Michelle Baharier was Sprout’s Artist in Residence in 2024. She is a critically acclaimed Fine Artist with a passion for colour and people, and her art features expressive portraits that tell stories. She is dyslexic and her artistic practice is strongly influenced by her lived experience of disability, resulting in participatory art and performative events.
Michelle brings over forty years of expertise in facilitating workshops, and curating exhibitions. She is also a performance artist in spoken word, poetry, photography, phone drawings, and digital/video collages and her work can be found in private collections, the Tate Modern archive and the London Transport Museum, and her poetry is in the British Library, various magazines and blogs. She is currently commissioned to work with Equality Works and London Transport Museum, creating work that explores people with disability in the work place, which she worked on during her residency.
Michelle worked to create a Community Portrait, inviting local families, neighbours and social groups to participate in creating a special collage by sharing their photos, images and ideas. There was also fun interactive activities, portrait opportunities, workshops and talks. supported by portrait artist Sonia Thomas and Anna-Maria Amato who is a fine artist, curator and writer.
