After graduating from Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT in 2010, Michele Rolstone sampled a number of creative industries including film and illustration, before taking up her first studio mid 2012 to pursue a career in Fine Art. Here she opened the first African branch of Dr Sketchy’s (part of an international brand of burlesque life drawing events), which she ran for a period of 2 years. It was at this time that she crossed paths with renowned South African printmaker Judy Woodborne, under whose mentorship she has been honing her skills as a printmaker. Michele has since earned the position of Studio Manager at Woodborne’s Intaglio Studio from which she offers professional artist collaborations and editioning, (having worked with artists such as Faith47 and Pierre Le Riche) as well as facilitating printmaking classes, while still maintaining her own practice as an artist. Michele has participated in numerous group exhibitions, art fairs and international printmaking biennales.

BIENNALES

2016
16th International Biennale of Small Graphics and Exlibris - Ostrów Weilkopolski (Poland)

2015
Selection of Works from the 4th International Footprint Biennale Exhibited in the JVS Project Space, Harlem, New York

2014
4th International Footprint Biennale – Centre For Contemporary Printmaking, CT, USA

2013
9th International Miniature Print Biennale – Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, CT, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
Dream Now, Dream Not, the annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, The Cape Gallery
Art on Paper, Kalk Bay Modern, Main Road, Kalk Bay, Cape Town
Collective 3, Carol Lee Fine Art, Upstairs at Bamboo, Melville, Johannesburg
Opskiet by die Museum, US Woordfees, University of Stellenbosch Museum, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch. (Road to Mecca & Fiela se Kind)

2014/Present
The Industrial Karoo – FEAR & LOSS; Traveling group exhibition curated by Katie Barnard du Toit. (Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Graaff Reinet, De Aar)   

2016
Purple Starman Tribute Mash-up at The Alex Hamilton Studio Gallery, Barron Street, Woodstock, Cape Town
Impressions, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
2016 Print and Making, the Association of Visual Arts Gallery (AVA), Church Street, Cape Town.
The Rainmaker, the annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
Mash-up at the Alex Hamilton Studio Gallery, Barron Street, Woodstock, Cape Town
Opskiet by die Museum, US Woordfees, Stellenbosch University Museum, Stellenbosch

2015
Natural Affinities, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
Die Alfabeter, J.P. Olivier Kuns Sentrum, Blom Street, Stellenbosch
My Girlfriend’s in Tangerine, Alex Hamilton at Kamers, Webersberg Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
Selection of Works from the 4th International Footprint Biennale Exhibited in the JVS Project Space, Harlem, New York

2014
Golden Haze, Salon91, 91 Kloof Street, Cape Town
Threshold, the annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town
Mash-up at The Alex Hamilton Studio Gallery, Barron Street, Woodstock, Cape Town

2013
Printmaking Exhibition, Youngblood, 78 Bree Street, Cape Town
Morality Monkeys, D-Street Gallery, Dorp Street, Stellenbosch
Prototype, D-Street Gallery, Dorp Street, Stellenbosch
Proverbs, the annual Winter Solstice Exhibition, The Cape Gallery, Cape Town

2012
I’d Rather be Swimming, Salon91, 91 Kloof Street, Cape Town
Beautifull Printmaking, Youngblood, 78 Bree Street, Cape Town
Boy Toy Mash-up at The Alex Hamilton Studio Gallery, 9 Barron St, Woodstock, Cape Town