Michelle Baharier is a multimedia Artist, who makes art to open up your heart. As a socially engaged artist Michelle creates projects with communities of interest. This includes performance art, sometimes in form of walks and other public art forms. Michelle has been part of the D.I.Y arts and squatting communities, ruining social centers and arts across a wide specturm she enjoys regencies exhibitions which working in wider community. Michelle studied Fine Art at Exeter College of Art and Design, and her Post Grad was at the Slade School of Fine Art. Michelle has exhibited in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. Michelle uses performance, sound, sculpture installation, drawing and painting, she has a sound piece called Sedition, part of Sound moves in the archives of Tate Modern UK and is blogging about her arts practice. Michelle has authored many books, arts, poetry and Cooking. She was the founder of the disabled led mental health charity CoolTan Arts, She famously started the Largctyal Shuffle walks, CoolWalks and Southwark hidden stories’.
Posts by Michelle Baharier
Michelle Baharier pays tribute to some of her top disability activists
June 23, 2021Michelle Baharier showcases a series of acrylic portraits of prominent disabled people she made earlier this year. Alongside the paintings she gives an account of each of the five people she chose to make portraits of, after discussions on DAO's Facebook group. Painting is an enormous part of my practice. When ...
The Walkie-Talkies
June 8, 2021The Walkie-Talkies is a multimedia artwork by socially engaged artist Michelle Baharier, based on a poem by David Morris called the Routemaster race. David was a disability advisor to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone (and Boris Johnson) and a life-time campaigner for disabled peoples' civil-rights. His poem encapsulates the exclusion experienced ...
Dyslexic artist reporting from lockdown
July 9, 2020Here's Michelle's first blog in a while, reflecting on Covid, and life with dyslexia, her first vlog. https://youtu.be/-4jDxGNFkSc The video is captioned (you have to turn them on in YouTube's settings), but a transcript is also available below. Hello, my name is Michelle Baharier. I'm a visual artist and I'm also a poet so ...
Women’s Art Activism – Provocation and Politics: The Personal is Political
February 11, 2020Join me on 8 March 2020 at 1pm Parliament Square at the statue of Millicent Fawcett to march and celebrate International Women’s Day with Performance Artist Michelle Baharier AKA MichelleDuchamp, Michelle Anglo and @dyslxicRant on twitter or @bahariermichelle on Instagram Be your own personification of a woman who inspires you and perform with me ...
Dyslexic Rant is back and blogging, happy new year all, and happy new year of the Rat ……so back to Instagram part 3
February 5, 2020This is a series of blogs/views about Instagram and artistic practice. Hashtags and a dyslexic brain ....... lets talk cut and paste and what to do? Well I am dyslexic and I do not get #hashtags so help! ‘Cut and paste’ how does that work? Yes you can be famous if you are ...
Dyslexic Rant, the impact of Instagram part 2
December 9, 2019This is a series of blogs/views about Instagram and artistic practice. Are you making work especially for Instagram has it changed your practice? Let me tell you about my drawings first.... I doodle all the time especially, when I am at meetings, I am a compulsive drawer, I love drawing and so ...
A ‘dyslexic rant’ about the impact of Instagram
November 12, 2019Does it work for you? This is a series of blogs/views about Instagram. To get a picture I need your heIp. As disabled artists, we will have different experiences about our ability to interact and use different mediums so please share your experiences at the end of these blogs. So how ...
Miss Havisham’s Wedding Dress
September 17, 2019I am a multi-disciplinary artist and in 2012 I made work that celebrated the London Olympics and the Paralympics but also Charles Dickens' bi-centenary, depicting Miss Havisham's Wedding Dress. It's now being brought out of storage for a new show, Impatient! Stories of service user advocacy at Bethlem Museum of ...
Arts Health and well-being and the professionals
June 28, 2019It’s probably about time I started writing about all the things I’ve done because it seems that everyone else is #Arts #Health and #Wellbeing. As I am a dyslexic I’ve written this on a speech to text attachment but also due to my dyslexia I am speaking this and it is ...
Spirit
June 25, 2019Spirit is the latest exhibition I have produced: a body of autobiographical works, it's about living with complex post traumatic stress disorder after being stalked and victimised. How do you survive 'gaslighting'? This body of work is that which saves us and is saving me. 'Gaslighting' aims to discredit a person. Its ...
Paralympic Athletes mural to be unveiled…
May 31, 2017I have been working on a mural for the Paralympic Atheletes to be unveiled later on this year… Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, David Weir, Ade Adepitan, Jonnie Peacock, Kadeena Cox, and Ellie Simmonds all feature. I painted all the athletes in action with the intention of showing their determination. I only had ...
Michelle Baharier: making art from the human condition
April 29, 2017Depression a name Given to your state of mind A name used to describe you to others A name for want of any other name A time of non-existence A frame without borders A newspaper Yet for me Art is the only Tool
