MICHELLE MARIE FORREST MA
Email: mmforrestbeckett@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2017 Masters of Fine Art (Distinction & Best Student Award), University of Lincoln
2007 BA Fine Art (1st Class Hons), University of Lincoln
ASSOCIATIONS
2026-27 Castlefield Gallery Funded Membership Awardee, Manchester, UK Castlefield Gallery
2025-26 Funded Resident Awardee, The Studio Creative Tech Space, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK The Studio – Bath Spa
2023-24 Spike Island Associate, Bristol, UK
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2026
AXIS Bursary Awardee 2026, AXIS Arts, UK
Brigstow Institute Connections Funding: Navigating digital dissonance by exploring emotional connections through music and sound, University of Bristol, UK From Harms to Harmonies
Bridging Emotions Symposium: Affect in Overcoming Social and Political Divides, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. Bridging Emotions
Bath Digital Festival Residents Showcase, The Studio, Bath, UK Bath Digital Festival Residents Showcase
Glitter Hearts Immersive Labs (GHIL) workshops specialising in spatial audio, The Studio, Bath, UK
Introduction to Creating Spatial Sound for Performance workshop, The Studio, Bath, UK
2023-24
Critical Mass: Mark Devereux Projects. A 6-month group mentoring programme centred around sculpture and/or installation art, UK. CRITICAL MASS
2015
Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) Fellow, University of Lincoln, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, & RESIDENCIES
2025
We Are Only Partly Real, Spike Island Digital Commission, Spike Island, Bristol, UK We are only Partly Real
Patterns & Process, Axis Art Highlights, UK AXIS Oct 2025
Moratoriums, Axis Art Highlights, UK AXIS Aug 2025,
We Are Only Partly Real, Axis Art Highlights, UK AXIS June / July 2025,
2023/24
c0de to Home. East Quay Gallery, Watchet, Somerset, UK.
2022
Stratified Relations. Issue 12: Recording and Documentation, Soanyway Magazine, UK. Soanyway Issue Twelve
Love by Proxy: Stratified Relations. Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset, UK.
2021
000000, Lost Crisis Collective: Care/Dare/Share, 12th International Society Artistic Research (SAR) Seminar, Vienna, Austria Lost Bergen Crisis Collective
Love by Proxy Series, Southwest Creative Technology Network Showcase, Bristol, UK.
Critical Voices in Data, Control Shift Network (CSN), Bristol, UK Control (╯°▽°)╯ ┻━┻ Shift
2020
New Talent Artistic Researcher Data Fellow, South West Creative Technology Network, Bristol, UK. SWCTN Data Fellows
Love by Proxy: Diagrammatic Drawing Series. Kosar Contemporary, Bristol, UK. TAPS Now | Kosar Contemporary
2018
{a violent intersection} in the RA 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
Gorge: An un-mountain, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK.
Rev{o,e}l{u,a}tions in Yellow Belly, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK. Yellow Belly 2018
Rev{o,e}l{u,a}tions & The Mountain and the Cave in Manifold. Quad Gallery, Derby, UK. Manifold | QUAD
2017
Manifold Funded Residency, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK. General Practice: Manifold | QUAD (derbyquad.co.uk)
The Gathering Artist Exchange: A 12-hour residency based at ROAR, The Factory, Rotherham, UK.
Blind Faith. x-Church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, UK.
{net, works} in MAtter, Project Space Plus Gallery, Lincoln, UK.
Kalopsia. LPAC theatre, Lincoln, UK.
Rev{o,e}l{u,a}tions. Various locations in rural Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, UK.
Concentrate: Pistoletto’s Infinity Cube in Punctuated³, Courtyard Gallery, The Collection, Lincoln, UK. Punctuated3
Concentrate: Pistoletto’s Infinity Cube in Punctuated³, a-n Magazine, UK.
The Rise of Crystal Stalagmites in Speed Processing Slowly, Project Space Plus Gallery, Lincoln, UK.
Moratorium II: under weigh. Project Space Plus Gallery, Lincoln, UK. Yellow Belly 2017
2016
Gorge: un-mountain in Art Is A Lie That Makes Us Realise Truth, Project Space Plus Gallery, Lincoln, UK.
inline worldview or weird love nil win in (extra)ordinary objects, St Mary le Wigford Church, Lincoln, UK.
Crystalline Thinking in Home-lab, Arboretum Ave, Lincoln, UK. Home-Lab 1-2
2015
Derange, Gallery at St Martins, Lincoln, UK.
Moratorium I: underweight in By-product, Project Space Plus Gallery, Lincoln, UK.
2010
Cleanliness is next to Godliness. The Market Estate Project by Tall Tales, Islington, London, UK.
2009
Creative Technician Funded Placement, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
Still Life, The Duke of Clarence, Elephant & Castle, London, UK.
2007
Still Life. Damaged in Transit, The Art Organization Gallery, Nottingham, UK.
Still Life. Greestone Gallery, Lincoln, UK.
Souvenir Memento Mori Collection. Open Plan, Tyler Gallery, Philadelphia, USA.
Apparition of Living in Arts in the Park, Arboretum Park, Lincoln, UK.
2005
In the Kitchen (Sculpture Award Winner). South Holland Open Arts, Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK.