Michelle Broun is a Yindjibarndi artist, curator, writer and lecturer. She was born in Perth, and raised in both Perth and the Pilbara, which is in the Northwest of Western Australia. In 1991 she exhibited sculptural works alongside the paintings of Alma Toomath and Bella Kelly in a show at the Fremantle Arts Centre, and in 2000 she participated in the exhibition 'Talking Together’ at the University Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston. In his Artlink review of the show, Gregory Long described her work as a 'predominantly red, stitched textile piece’ that had 'great subtlety in its use of multi-layered colour and symbol’ (2000, p. 78). One of Broun’s curatorial projects was the exhibition 'Women’s Work, Land and Spirit’, which encompassed works by 83 women artists from Australia, the Torres Strait Islands and several countries in the Pacific Islands. The exhibition toured to Beijing in 1995, where it was displayed at the Working People’s Cultural Palace during the United Nations fourth world conference on women. Broun has also been employed as an Aboriginal arts worker in a range of capacities in both Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Broun’s sister Jody Broun is also an artist.
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- Writers:
- Fisher, Laura
- Date written:
- 2009
- Last updated:
- 2011
