Michelle Hyland is an Australian artist working across painting, collage, and installation.
Her practice investigates impermanence and material transformation through encounters with discarded urban matter. Working through walking, collecting, and arranging, she constructs temporary compositions from overlooked fragments of the built environment. These configurations are translated into painting, where they shift into unstable spatial and material propositions.
Hyland’s work considers how meaning is produced through proximity, repetition, and degradation, and how value is assigned to matter within contemporary urban systems.
Developed through ongoing research in Australia and Europe, her practice engages the city as a site of continual reorganisation, where residue and excess become active material rather than waste.