Michelle Hanlin (born in Melbourne, lives and works in Sydney) has exhibited paintings and sculpture since 1999. Hanlin’s work embodies a relationship between sculpture, painting and colour. Her early works depicted figurative tableaux scenes, more recently creating images through painting and collage that refer to flat and emblematic frontal compositions with a suggestion of Bas-relief or sculptural shadowing. Hanlin often uses the meeting point of figuration and abstraction in her work with the abstracted images of manufactured and natural elements creating a psychic tension in our relationship to those things and the meanings we bestow upon them. 

Hanlin studied Sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts and was awarded a first-class honours degree. Her first solo exhibition with Gallery 9 in 2007, with ten to date. She has exhibited interstate and internationally in group exhibitions. Hanlin was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere travelling scholarship, RBS Emerging Artist Award and the Fishers Ghost Art Award. Her work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, MCA, Artbank, Wollongong City Gallery, and numerous private collections around Australia.