Flowing deep within, nurturing, strengthening & growing stronger.

Michelle Joy is an artist whose artistic influence is her cultural background. Her distinct visual style speaking her spiritual connection to her Kaurna heritage. Art has guided Michelle towards creating a coherent sense of her diverse cultural identity.

‘Being creatively minded has guided me onto a journey of self discovery around the connection to both my Greek & Kaurna heritage. Understanding my cultural connections, i have identified that cultural embodiment forms through our senses. I understand the intergenerational impacts of the stolen generation through my once ‘dormant’ now growing Kaurna roots.

Through my creativity I can stretch culture big enough that it embraces all the cultural colors i embody.

‘Recover the person we were intended to be. Within you as within an oak tree there is a code waiting to realise itself, within the smallest seed the potential for the tree dormantly lays and no tree is going to experience cultural conditioning. The tree will actualise itself. The point of recovery is to actualise who you are & get on your intended path.