Residence Plan
I will create a combined abstract painting installation with sound composition. With this project I am considering how musical composition develops rhythm and pattern across time, as well as how repeated use of similar sounds within a composition allows time to shift both forward and backward through our memory. Here, pattern and memory develop across long paintings and long stereo compositions.

Artist Profile
1) Events, Traces and Reverberations, The Engine Room Wellington, 2014
2) Form Unseen, e/static blank Torino, 2016
3) Die Relation der Unschärfe, Das Esszimmer - Raum für Kunst+ Bonn, 2020

Base of Activity: Castlemaine and Melbourne, Australia
Media Used: Painting, sound art, installation

Michael Graeve is a visual and sound artist based in Melbourne, Australia. He works across abstract painting and sound art. He has held over 27 solo exhibitions. At RMIT University, Michael is the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the School of Art. He has contributed to artist-run culture as a board member at Liquid Architecture Sound Inc (2007-2021), West Space Inc (2000-2004) and Grey Area Art Space Inc (1996-1999). He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Fine Art degrees.