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Life as Is, Not as Expected, Polyptych, Acrylic on Canvas

In 2023 I took part two shows with In/Visible National Disabled  Women's Art Collective titled All the Women I Could Have Been

The shows were funded by Arts Council England and fully accessible. They took place in:

ARC, Stockton-On-Tees, North East  3 - 31 August 2023 and

​Arts Depot, North Finchley, London 6 - 28 September 2023

Both exhibitions were also streamed live online for the people people who couldn't attend in person.

For these exhibitions I created my large polyptych – four paintings together - on the theme ‘All The Women I Could Have Been‘ and actually it's more Who I am  really – titled ‘Life as Is, Not as Expected’

The piece was also exhibited in The Minories in Colchester in 2025.

Detail, Bottom left

Gallery 000 1714653853 Michelle Baharier

What Shapes You?, Art Performance by Michelle Baharier at MIMA, Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, February 2025

Brockwell Park, Photography

Eve and Adam by Michelle Baharier, Acrylic and felt tip pen on canvas

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