Michelle Ussher works across paper, painting and ceramic forms. She studied industrial design at the University of Newcastle before relocating to Melbourne to study painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts. Ussher places an emphasis on the hand-made and creates gesture through use of colour, subtle and luminous. Her vocabulary comprises the vernacular of figurative, abstracted and symbolist expression, forms she layers in a way that make them feel outside of exact comprehension, a glance or glimpsed detail yet to be rendered whole in the mind. She states ‘I’m attracted to the intangible, to the possibility of multiple ideas existing together that are open in their curiosity, rather than offering a closed definition.’stonnington contemporary art collection, painting, abstract, michelle ussher