Michelle Hamer workshop EOIs | Intimacy
School and community groups of up to 10 participants are invited to submit an expression of interest (EOI) to participate in a special workshop creating 'found poetry' through interacting with the work of Michelle Hamer, exhibiting artist in Intimacy.
Hamer's artwork, There Are No Words (2016), is a set of 240 hand-stitched works featuring embroidered text from emails, text messages and conversations during an intimate and long-running exchange. The language that appears is personal, very specific to time, place and the people within the exchange, and also out of context.
Hamer is providing training to RMOA staff to deliver workshops throughout April and May 2026.
To submit your EOI, complete a school and group booking request form and mention Michelle Hamer workshop as the requested program. We encourage all schools and groups to submit an application for the RMOA x Haymans Bus Bursary.
FREE | Maximum 10 per group
Subject to staff and volunteer availability
Michelle Hamer
Michelle Hamer explores the profound significance of language in our lives. Darkly humorous and familiar her artwork includes hand-stitched, drawn, LED, screen-prints and video works. Based on her own photographs and collected text, it is concerned with being present in the complexities of contemporary narratives. She is interested in the way that messaging can define space and reflect personal, local and global beliefs. Her works oscillate between fast and slow; past and present; analogue and digital; 2D and 3D; personal and political and become markers of rarely captured but revealing moments of 'everyday' aspirations and fears.
Hamer’s work literally connects to a unique moment in time yet as the world changes the works take on new meaning and speak to us in new ways. The messages and scenes captured are pointed and personal. They are the moment, sign, a letter, a scratch of graffiti that hits us directly - irreverently encapsulating life and memorialising an everyday instance while allowing us the time and space to be present, reflect and then laugh at what life presents us.
Image: Michelle Hamer There Are No Words 2016, wool and perforated plastic grids, public program participant. Photo: courtesy of the artist.
This program is generously supported in partnership with Haymans Electrical.
When
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Monday, 20 April 2026 | 09:00 AM
- Friday, 29 May 2026 | 04:00 PM