Overview
Eurasia Antipodes, Watercolour, collage, stamps, shell gold and silver, oil pigment, paper, silk, 396 x 7.8, 2017-2019
Canberra and other Ideas, Waterclour on paper, 136 x 10.5 in, 2017-2019
Floating in hindustan
Michal Glikson, Floating in Hindustan Watercolour on wasli, 118 x 9.8 in
Note
“I am a diary keeper. I carry a 10 metre paper scroll in which I make drawings wherever I live, about people and what is going on and might contain life as experienced in cities, villages, fields, forests. I make drawings sitting in streets, cafes, schools, offices, refugee camps, train stations, trains, boats, beaches, planes, airports, buses, rickshaws, donkey carts…pretty much anywhere. My scrolls are not pristine documents but contain the marks and creases of life, carried as they have been over months and in many cases, years.
Drawing is an attentive language that people seem to trust. Perhaps they wonder what I am doing, as I sit on the street with a roll of paper. They approach to see what I sketch and if they want to be part of the unfolding story that I am making, so be it. This way of making and sharing my diary is distinct to my painting practice and social, immersive, and empathic process.
I wish there was such a thing as a “storyteller passport” because I belong nowhere and everywhere. For the past 15 years I have often been tracing triangles between India, Pakistan, and Australia. I feel I belong to the story that wants to be told, to the event that wants to be witnessed, to the being who wants to be drawn, and remembered as a miniature painting in my scroll.”
Michal Glikson
Biography
Michal Glikson (b. 1969, Australia)
Michal Glikson holds a Master of Visual Arts from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, and a PhD in Visual Arts from the Australian National University, where she completed doctoral research on her peripatetic painting practice. She is the author of Peripatetic Painting: Pathways in Social, Immersive, and Empathic Art Practice (Springer Nature, 2022). Glikson has undertaken numerous residencies, including time in Australia, India, and Pakistan, which have contributed to her international perspective and collaborative engagements.
Glikson has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. Selected exhibitions include: ‘Habitat: Ways of Living’, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra (2021); ‘Looks like Sound, Sounds like Painting’, Gallery of Small Things (GOST), Canberra (2019); Featured artist, BOAA: Biennale of Australian Art; ‘Attokoussy Project’, Le Cube Independent Art Room, Marrakesh and Rabat (2017); ‘Australindopak Archive’, Hinterland Galerie, Vienna (2017); ‘Pulse’, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (CMAG), Canberra (2014); ‘White Paper; decoding memory’, Art Konsult Gallery, New Delhi (2013); Sea+ Triennale, Global Art: Ways Around Asia, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta; ‘Half Circle Scroll’, Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Canberra (2011); ‘The Shahnama Book of Kings; Contemporary Responses’, Cambridge Shahnameh Project, London–Paris–Milan–Dubai; ‘Floating in Hindustan’, Parramasala Festival, Sydney; Nairang Gallery, Lahore; Travelling Scholarship Exhibition, Sunshine Coast Regional Art Gallery; Half Circle Scroll & Floating in Hindustan, Sonic Projects, Australia Asia Foundation Sonic Gallery; ‘Drifters 2’, Art Konsult Gallery, Haus Khas, New Delhi; Half Circle Scroll installation, Alhamra Gallery, Lahore (2010); ‘Taaluq’, Rohtas Gallery, Lahore (2009); ‘Looking 4 Taaluq’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney; ‘Now Playing: Strange Trajectories’, Alliance Francaise Award Exhibition, Canberra (2008).
