IMBUE - MICHELLE VAN EIMEREN

19th JUN - 12th JUL 2025
OPENING THUR 19TH JUNE 6-8PM

CBD Gallery, 72 Erskine Sydney

Michelle Van Eimeren is an emerging Australian artist based in Robertson, NSW, Her work explores the intersection of nature, memory, and the human experience. Driven by an intuitive exploration of materials and processes to understand the world through a diverse range of mediums, including painting, drawing, ceramics, and printmaking. A deep reverence for nature infuses Michelle's abstract paintings, through her love and knowledge of colour and as a visual distillation of the seasonal, locally foraged plant matter, used for the ecological contact printing process on paper and silk. Van Eimeren turns her focus entirely to botanical contact printing on silk for this exhibition, creating a compelling installation that fuses nature, memory, and

transformation.

Michelle holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the National Art School, a Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Visual Art from Meadowbank TAFE, an Executive Certificate in Event Management from UTS, and a Certificate Ill in Commercial Floral Design. The artists diverse background informs their unique artistic practice.

Michelle has been a finalist in the 2019 Tafe NSW Art Prize, 2019 SWAP Sustainable Waste Art Prize, 2018 John Copes Portrait Prize, 2018 Pirtek Still Life Prize, and the 2018 Wingecarribee Drawing Prize. has showcased her work in group exhibition at CBD Gallery, the National Art School, and is held in private collections throughout Australia.

IMBUE continues Van Eimeren's ongoing investigation into the intersections of nature, memory, and the quiet traces left by lived experience. Working with a mindful appreciation of her environment, she gathers plant materials from her surroundings, guided by the changing seasons. This slow process of foraging becomes a meditative act, inviting moments of stillness, reflection, and discovery.

Each collected specimen is a fleeting treasure, preserved in time through pigment and imprint. Transferred onto delicate silk panels, these botanical impressions form luminous, layered works that envelop the gallery in an atmosphere of reverence and contemplation. The installation of this work offers a sanctuary-a space where the natural world and the inner world gently converge. The silk, both fragile and resilient, captures the subtle presence of lives witnessed and remembered, much like the quiet acknowledgment of those who have navigated complex emotional landscapes.

Through this evolving body of work, Van Eimeren invites us to consider how we hold onto what has passed-not just in memory, but in gesture, in fabric, in color. The work honors the impermanence of nature and the enduring marks left by experience, allowing each print to speak of recognition, care, and the silent strength of renewal.