Since 2003 Michelle Hamer has worked as a visual artist using hand-stitched tapestries on perforated plastic canvas as a way to explore the small in-between moments of apparent ‘nothingness’ that permeate everyday life. Informed by her background in architecture, her work focuses on signage within urban landscapes. She is particularly interested in margins of error; interstitial and impermanent spaces as represented through freeway signage and billboards.
Tapestrying began as a way for her to explore the limitations of being house bound for seven years with a chronic illness .The tapestries capture small intense sped-up moments travelling between health practitioners and home. Beginning to enjoy a slow recovery, Michelle continues to use this traditional technique to explore an ironic romanticism present between tapestry and the digitalisation of imagery in contemporary society.