'The Tweed River Art Gallery'
December 2009 - January 2010
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Born in New Zealand, Michelle moved to Australia in 1985. She has been working as a professional artist since 1996 and has studied both in Australia and the UK. Her work invariably includes animals, although of late the creatures have begun to cross breed and hybridize into strange beasts. Her current predilections include; Tasmanian tigers, dodos, big cats, hyenas, crows, wings (on anything), fairy-tales, halos, pomegranates, Velasques ruffs, putti, stormy skies, & monsters. She lives and works in a converted church near the coast in rural Australia.
"I would write on the lintels of the door-post whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
M.S.Dawson has been shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Crichton Award 2009 for new illustrator of the year.
The Crichton Award aims to recognise and encourage new talent in the field of Australian children's book illustration.
'how WEIRD is that’
is a beautiful hard cover book with fabric binding and gold foiling, patterned end papers and ivory paper. With eighteen beautifully illustrated colour plates, unorthodox and delightful use of font and a fantastic tale woven around Australian native animals, 'how WEIRD is that’ is both a children's book and an art book and as such is suitable for anyone aged 4-94.