Michaela French is an artist and researcher working with light and time-based media across a broad range of artistic contexts. Light serves as subject, medium and experience in her artistic practice which is grounded in an ecological systems-based approach. Michaela creates innovative artworks and award-winning moving image experiences for 360° immersive media spaces, contemporary performance, museums and gallery exhibition.

Michaela’s artistic research investigates the systemic interrelation between light, body, perceptual experience and environment through practice-based and theoretical enquiry. Michaela uses attentive observation and subjective immersive experience as her primary methods of investigation. The ecological principles of reciprocity, interrelation and co-creation are central to her practice-based investigations which seek to inspire debate about the ecological imperatives which increasingly influence contemporary artistic and cultural practice. Michaela completed her PhD in Information Experience Design at Royal College of Art, London in 2020.

Michaela is a co-founder and chair of the Fulldome Creative Network and serves on the Advisory Boards for IMERSA and the Fulldome Festival.

Selected collaborators include:
Skipton Camerata
Andrée Greenwell
Dr Andrew Pontzen
Chunky Move Dance Company
Circa
Dr Helga Schmid
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
LIFT Festival
Live Cinema UK
Lucy Guerin Dance Company
Melbourne Festival
Melbourne Museum
Melbourne Planetarium
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
NSC Creative
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Opera Australia
Peter Harrison Planetarium, Royal Museums Greenwich
Royal Opera House Creative Partnerships